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'I had no idea where my baby would come from'
There was no such thing as sex education back in the 1930s - in fact, it was "rude" to talk about sex. In this clip from the Woman's Hour archive, a group of women discuss the impact a complete lack of family planning knowledge had on their lives and how terrified they were of having more children.
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