In honor of Women’s History Month 2025, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought presents the essay “Bodies, Babies and Birth Control” by Melissa Proctor from the Fall 2003 issue. This automated voice rendering is provided in order to enable greater accessibility to our content.

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