Rachelle Yarros, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 18-May-1869
Place of Birth: Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine
Date of Death: 17-Mar-1946
Profession: obstetrician
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Rachelle Yarros
- Rachelle Slobodinsky Yarros (May 18, 1869 – March 17, 1946) was an American physician who supported the use of birth control and the social hygiene movement.
- A graduate of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Yarros resided at Hull House for many years and opened the second birth control clinic in the nation there.
- She was an obstetrician/gynecologist affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Chicago Lying-in Hospital. Yarros' social causes included assisting with the founding of the American Social Hygiene Association and founding the first premarital and marital counseling service in the United States.
- Yarros was married to journalist and anarchist Victor Yarros.
- Late in life, she left Chicago for Florida and then California, dying of heart problems in San Diego.
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