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“The Right Number of Children”—Emko Birth Control in Puerto Rico and the US, 1962–1966

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Journal of Family History: Studies in Family, Kinship, Gender, and Demography

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Abstract

Journal of Family History, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 264-289, July 2026.
The population control ideologue Joseph Sunnen distributed his spermicidal vaginal foam Emko, first in Puerto Rico and then surreptitiously to poor and working-class women in the United States through the mail and in concert with Planned Parenthood in ...