A Brief History of the Birth Control Movement in the United States
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A Brief History of the Birth Control Movement in the
United States1837 Charles Goodyear vulcanizes
rubber1848 process patented to manufacture
hollow rubber articles
Charles Goodyear
A Brief History of the Birth A Brief History of the Birth Control Movement in the Control Movement in the United StatesUnited States
1860s • “Purity Movement” develops in US•New York Society for Suppression of Vice - President Anthony Comstock
1873 •Comstock Act passed by Congress
1883 Margaret Higgins (Sanger) born in Corning, NY
1900 Margaret marries William Sanger
1912-13 Margaret Sanger involvedin textile workers strikes
A Brief History of the Birth Control A Brief History of the Birth Control Movement in the United StatesMovement in the United States
1914 Margaret Sanger founds National Birth Control League-publishes The Woman Rebel,
Family Limitation-charged with violation of
Comstock Act-flees to Europe
Ellis
Sanger
19151915 With financial help from Henry Havlock
Ellis, Margaret Sanger continues to publish Family Limitation from abroad
-10 million copies in circulation Comstock poses as desperate husband to
William Sanger William mails him copy of Family
Limitation William arrested, refuses to give over
information about Margaret
1916-1917
William goes to trial NY Times publishes letters
from Comstock Comstock dies Margaret returns to open the first birth
control clinic in US Clinic closed after 30 days Margaret sues to
re-open clinic
Margaret Sanger is shown Margaret Sanger is shown with admiring supporters as with admiring supporters as she left Brooklyn Court of she left Brooklyn Court of Special Sessions after her Special Sessions after her arraignment, January 4, 1917arraignment, January 4, 1917..
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1918 •Physicians given right to prescribe contraceptives
1926 • Sanger is a prime organizer of the first World Population Conference in Geneva
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In U.S. v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries, court found that birth control could be no longer classified as obscene.
AMA recognizes birth control as a part of medical service
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1942 Margaret Sanger founds Birth Control Federation of
America -later changes name to Planned Parenthood
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1947 AMA American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology refuses to publish article on IUDs
1948 Planned Parenthood awards asmall grant to Gregory Pincus,a research biologist to study the possible development of a birthcontrol pill
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1960s “The Pill” available in US
1965In Griswold v. Connecticut Supreme Court invalidates state
laws prohibiting physicians from providing contraception advice
-upholds right to privacy
Dr. G. Pincus
19701970Congress passes Title X Family
Planning Program to ensure that the uninsured working poor women and teens who are not eligible for Medicaid have access to family planning and other reproductive health care services.
Public Funding for Public Funding for Family Planning (2010)Family Planning (2010)
Health departments run most Title Health departments run most Title X-supported clinicsX-supported clinics
Clinics with Title X funding(4,300)
Table 12, p. 46
Birth Control in the Birth Control in the NewsNews
• March 23, 2010 - President Obama signed legislation to overhaul the nation’s health care system and guarantee access to medical insurance for tens of millions of Americans.• Includes a mandate for employers to cover birth control .• Opposed by Catholic Universities and Hospitals who employ many non-Catholics.• Compromise proposed by Obama whereby insurance companies will pick up these costs.• Is this an infringement of religious freedom?
February 16, 2012 congressional February 16, 2012 congressional witnesses to discuss whether recent witnesses to discuss whether recent mandate that health insurance mandate that health insurance companies cover contraception hurt companies cover contraception hurt religious freedoms.religious freedoms.
A later panel contained 2 women
The small proportion The small proportion of women who do not of women who do not use contraceptives . . use contraceptives . . ..
Women at risk of unintended pregnancy
(42 million)
Women experiencing unintended pregnancies
(3 million)
. . . account for . . . account for roughly half of all roughly half of all unintended unintended pregnanciespregnancies
Table 4, p. 44
Just say noJust say no
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