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Kōrero: Contraception and sterilisation

'Family planning means ...'

This Family Planning (now Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa) pamphlet advocating birth control was in circulation in the 1940s or 1950s. At this time the association had no clinics, and could only provide information and lobby the government.

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Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa, Dame Margaret Sparrow Collection

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Jane Tolerton, Contraception and sterilisation – Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/interactive/27007/family-planning-means (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jane Tolerton, i tāngia i te 23 March 2011.