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by acwan93 986 days ago
The Catholic church has tried:

>On New Year's Eve 1930, the Roman Catholic Church officially banned any "artificial" means of birth control. Condoms, diaphragms and cervical caps were defined as artificial, since they blocked the natural journey of sperm during intercourse.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-ca...

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The reason we know that infants can die when they’re not held is because of a law that made both abortion and birth control illegal. A truly gruesome lesson learned in the most awful of ways.

Romania Decree 770 Happened in 1967 and is the stuff of nightmares.