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Mother of Birth Control
Margaret Sanger social activist, nurse, mother. Starts informing woman on ways to prevent unwanted pregnacies -
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Women's Reproductive Rights Movement
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Read All About It
Sanger starts a newletter called "The Woman's Rebel" to inform woman about contraceptives. -
Illegal Import
In 1915, Sanger travelled to a Dutch birth control clinic were she learned about diaphragms. She often illegally had these diaphragms sent to the United States. -
Comstock Laws
Sanger tries to open her first birth control clinic but it is shut down due to Comstock Laws, which prohibited the distrubution of lewd and obsence material. Sanger was jailed for 30 days. -
Doctors Orders
In 1918, the court ruled that doctors were exempt from the laws which prohibited them from givng women information about birth control. -
American Birth Control League
Sander founded the American Birth Control League. There purpose was to give mothers and potential mothers the ability to receive harmless reliable methods of birth control. -
Clinical Research Bureau
First clinic ran entirely by female doctors and social workers. This clinic was financially funded by the Rockefeller family. -
Split in the Movement
Sander's resigned from ABCL to take full control of CRB which was renamed to Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau. -
Gaining New Acceptance
The America Medical Association declared that contraceptives are a normal medical servie, and incorporated it into premed education as well. -
Planned Parenthood
The ABCL and the BCCRB merged in 1939 to for the Birth Control Federation of America. In 1942 the changed the name to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. -
Int'l Planned Parenthood
World's largest international family planning organization. Sanger served as the president of that organization unitl she was 80 years ol age. -
The Pill
Dr. Gregory Goodwin Pincus and Dr. Rock received funding from one of Sanger's supporters to conduct human trials for Enovid as a contraceptive. The trials took place in Puerto Rico, because it was still illegal to use in the United States. -
1960's
Envoid is approved by the FDA for use as womans contraceptives. -
1965
Griswold vs. Connecticut, the U.S. supreme court strikes down state laws which prohibit contraception for married couples. -
1970's
The 70's era of the woman's reproductive rights focused alot on abortion rights. Roe vs. Wade was a huge victory for woman rights to choose in 1973. -
1980'w
The 80"s did alot of to develope reproductive surrogacy laws. The case of baby M, 1986, the surrogate mother attempted to keep custody of the baby she was paid to carry. -
1990's
Plan B contraceptive was approved by the FDA in 1999 with a prescription. I later became available over-the-counter for any person over the age 17 with identification.
