I add to Jim's post this wiki entry on contraceptives in Ireland

And some memories of a few of the women who rode [url=http://www.rte.ie/archives/exhibitions/1666-women-and-society/459015-condom-train-and-women-in-the-media/]contraceptive trains[/url]of the 1970s and were arrested for bringing in contraceptive contraband from the North.