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A history of the birth control movement in America / Peter C. Engelman

This work tells the story of a group of reformers dedicated to making contraception legal, accessible, and acceptable. It details how Margaret Sanger's campaign beginning in 1914 to challenge anti ...

What Margaret Sanger Really Said About Eugenics and Race

As Gloria Steinem pointed out in a 1998 essay for TIME, Sanger’s embrace of the eugenics rhetoric may have been less a ...
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Bell Ringer: Margaret Sanger and the History of the Birth Control Movement

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Margaret Sanger discussed what influenced her to get start the birth control movement. Archival video of Margaret Sanger, the leader of the birth ...
Hartford Courant

Griswold v. CT, in 1965, made it illegal for states to outlaw birth control for spouses

(THE CONVERSATION) Sixty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that married couples have a constitutional right to use contraception. Griswold v. Connecticut, decided in 1965, made it illegal for states ...
The New York Times

‘Who Am I Without Birth Control?’

As social media and wellness podcasters bombard young women with messages about the pill, many are questioning what they’ve long been told. As social media and wellness podcasters bombard young women ...