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   Outdated contraceptive may help in Third World
For many American women, the words ``diaphragm'' and ``renaissance'' simply don't belong in the same sentence. After all, the diaphragm is the birth control method their mothers used because they didn't have the pill. Cumbersome, messy, and famously prone to flying across the room, the rubbery beige device today is used by just 2 percent of U.S. women who use contraception. So the idea that the diaphragm could make a comeback as a common birth control method might seem, well, a bit far-fetched.


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