Today Sponge with a 3-D teaching model

Date: 1989.
Credit: The Miss Margaret Robins Archives of Women’s College Hospital, Dr. Marion Powell fonds, POW-7-036.

Today Sponge is a vaginal contraceptive sponge. In 1989, Dr. Marion Powell began a clinical trial at the Bay Centre for Birth Control to determine the effectiveness and ease of use of the product as a method of contraception.