 … It places conception entirely under the control of the wife, to whom it naturally belongs; for it is for her to say at what time and under what circumstances, she will become the mother, and the moral, religious, and physical instructress of offspring.Foote appears to have been the first to use the term "womb veil", in introducing his vaginal diaphragm in 1863.The explicitness of his description is regarded as "rather remarkable" for its time.