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A first-hand account of the 1980s campaign against the sex-selective abortion of girls
In 1973 the landmark decision was made in the US Supreme Court which made abortion legal
The campaign to allow abortion in Great Britain which resulted in a new law in 1967.
In 1993 abortion laws were tightened up in Poland after the fall of Communism
In 2003, fertility expert Dr Nayana Patel carried out her first surrogacy procedure.
A female designer working for a pharmaceutical company came up with the idea in the 1960s
Tunisia became the first country in the Muslim world to legalise divorce and abortion.
In March 1921 Marie Stopes opened Britain's first birth control clinic in London.
The pill meant reliable, convenient family planning - and sexual freedom
In 1951, Dr Carl Djerassi created the Pill's active ingredient from Mexican wild yams.
A group of women challenged a ban on contraception and took a train to get them
The contraceptive pill was approved for use in the US in 1960, but in Japan it was 1999.
