Dr. Marion Powell talks about the accessibility of birth control in the 1950s

An interview with Dr. Marion Powell talking about the accessibility of birth control in the 1950s.

Duration: 1:04 minutes.

[Title card reads: Dr. Marion Powell talks about the accessibility of birth control in the 1950s] [An older woman wearing a blue blazer and colourful scarf is seated in front of a bookcase. She is speaking to an interviewer who is off camera.] My interest in birth control goes back to my days when I was an intern and a resident when I saw a lot of women having great many children in their family. I actually delivered 26th pregnancies in Northern Ontario once. A woman who had 26 pregnancies and had over 20 living children and so I was always very interested. We didn’t have a great many things to tell people to use and the one of things that we could do is say go to an Eaton’s catalogue and get a diaphragm. It was five dollars on the same page with trusses and pessaries and you can still see it in the old catalogues of the 50s and that was for many women that was their only source of birth control other than condoms, which they could order from personal ads, they could buy at garages and bars in the 50s.