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They decided to start fitting female beavers with the contraceptive Norplant, in the hopes that the beaver population would stabilize and then return to normal levels. It's already been tried successfully on skunks, and veterinarians in Montana are optimistic about the chances for similar results with the beavers...
...Norplant, approved in December of 1990, has quickly become a popular form of birth control among humans as well. Only 100,000 women had the surgically implanted contraceptive inserted last year, but today the Norplant users total over 500,000--not including beavers and skunks. Norplant is highly effective, cheap, and easy; insertion of the device takes less than 10 minutes. In fact, Medicaid covers it in every state...
WITH ONE OF THE HIGHEST TEENAGE PREGNANCY rates in the nation, Baltimore already provides birth-control pills and condoms to its public school students. But health officials have decided that extra measures are needed. Starting in January, school clinics will begin offering Norplant, a surgically implanted contraceptive that lasts for five years...
Last night, in a speech that touched on most hot-button sexual issues, the noted sex therapist voiced support for alternative sexuality, abortion rights and school health clinics. She railed against bestiality and Norplant, a contraceptive device which is implanted in womens' arms...
...suggest that the anti-fur-coat folks should now retreat and give thousands of women -- not to say the environment -- a break. It is not crazy, however, to provide the beavers with contraceptives, so Wildlife 2000 has arranged to trap beavers, sort out the females and fit them with Norplant, the birth-control device. It might work, says Montana veterinarian Jay Kirkpatrick, who has used Norplant successfully on skunks. Inasmuch as beavers are such eager workers, it will be interesting to see if they suffer from angst as they try, try, try to have babies and fail, fail, fail...