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The Birth Control Federation of America officially becomes Planned Parenthood.
Date: 1942
Medical system (Western medicine)
Reproductive health/reproductive rights
Nonprofit Industrial Complex
Emerging out of the birth control projects of its founder Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood will go on to become the largest institution to provide birth control in the U.S.
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