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By: Sheraden Seward | Published: Jan 13, 2009

The Comstock Law was a controversial law because it limited the reproductive rights of women and violated every person's right to privacy. This…

By: Aliya Buttar | Published: Nov 24, 2008

Gregory Goodwin Pincus, one of the original researchers responsible for the development of the first oral contraceptive pill, was born in Woodbine,…

By: Aliya Buttar, Sheraden Seward | Published: Nov 17, 2008

Progestin is a synthetic form of progesterone, a naturally occurring hormone, which plays an important role in the female reproductive cycle. During…

By: Aliya Buttar, Sheraden Seward | Published: Sep 04, 2008

Plan B is a progestin-only emergency contraceptive pill (ECP) that can be taken within seventy-two hours of unprotected sex in order to prevent an…

By: Ellen M. DuPont | Published: Jul 22, 2008

The Mothers' Clinic for Constructive Birth Control was established on 17 March 1921. The first family planning clinic ever established in Great…

By: Ellen M. DuPont | Published: Jul 10, 2008

Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 15 October 1880 to Charlotte Carmichael Stopes, a suffragist, and Henry Stopes…

By: Benjamin Garcia, Katherine Brind'Amour | Published: Nov 11, 2007

Pope Paul VI, born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini, has been crucial to the clarification of Roman Catholic views on embryos and…

By: Katherine Brind'Amour, Benjamin Garcia | Published: Nov 11, 2007

The encyclical entitled "Evangelium Vitae," meaning "The Gospel of Life," was promulgated on 25 March 1995 by Pope John Paul II in Rome, Italy. The…