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Thesis: Dismantling Legal Constraints to Contraception in the 1900s
By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: Jan 27, 2021
In the late nineteenth century, the Comstock Act of 1873 made the distribution of contraception illegal and classified contraception as an obscenity…
ContraceptionReproductive RightsBirth control in literatureFertility ControlSocial Change
The People of the State of New York v. Margaret H. Sanger (1918)
By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: Jan 22, 2018
In 1918, the New York State Court of Appeals in Albany broadened the justification physicians could use to prescribe contraceptives to married…
LawObscenity (Law)Abortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinics
What Every Girl Should Know (1916), by Margaret Sanger
By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: Dec 12, 2017
What Every Girl Should Know was published in 1916 in New York City, New York, as a compilation of articles written by Margaret Sanger from 1912 to…
LiteratureObscenity (Law)Abortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinics
City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health (1983)
By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya, Lawton L. Jackson
| Published: Nov 08, 2017
In the 1983 case City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health the US Supreme Court ruled that certain requirements of the city of Akron’s “…
LawAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinicsContraception
What Every Mother Should Know (1914), by Margaret Sanger
By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: Oct 24, 2017
What Every Mother Should Know was published in 1914 in New York City, New York, as a compilation of newspaper articles written by Margaret Sanger in…
LiteratureObscenity (Law)Abortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinics
1901 Arizona Comstock Law
By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: Jun 28, 2017
In 1901, the Arizona Territorial Legislature codified territorial law that illegalized advertising, causing, or performing abortions anywhere in…
LawObscenity (Law)Abortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionArizona
“Family Limitations” (1914), by Margaret Higgins Sanger
By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: Jun 28, 2017
In 1914, Margaret Sanger published “Family Limitations,” a pamphlet describing six different types of contraceptive methods. At the time Sanger…
LiteratureBirth ControlSterilization (Birth control)Reproductive RightsFamily Planning
Pearl Mao Tang (1922– )
By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: Jun 23, 2017
A licensed obstetrician and gynecologist, Pearl Tang worked to improve the health of women and children in Maricopa County, Arizona, during the…
Family planning servicesContraceptionInfants--MortalitySan Carlos Indian Reservation (Ariz.)Arizona
United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries (1936)
By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: May 24, 2017
In the 1936 case United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York City, New York,…
LawObscenity (Law)Abortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinics
Anthony Comstock (1844–1915)
By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: May 23, 2017
Anthony Comstock was a US postal inspector and politician who advocated for the suppression of obscenity and vice throughout the late nineteenth…
Obscenity (Law)Abortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinicsContraception