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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
United States v. Milan Vuitch (1971)
By: Victoria Higginbotham
| Published: Jan 13, 2020
In the 1971 court case United States v. Milan Vuitch, hereafter US v. Vuitch, the US Supreme Court ruled that a Washington, DC law was constitutional…
LawAbortionReproductive RightsContraceptionSexual rights
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
Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt (2016)
By: Carolina J. Abboud
| Published: Dec 12, 2017
In the 2016 case Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, the US Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional the Texas requirements that abortion providers have…
LawBirth control clinicsAbortionFamily planning servicesAbortion--Law and legislation--United States
Planned Parenthood v. Danforth (1976)
By: Carolina J. Abboud
| Published: Nov 15, 2017
On 1 July 1976, the US Supreme Court decided in the case Planned Parenthood v. Danforth that provisions of a Missouri law regulating abortion care…
LawAbortion--Law and legislation--United StatesAbortionBirth control clinicsContraception
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
Jane Elizabeth Hodgson (1915–2006)
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: Jun 28, 2017
Jane Elizabeth Hodgson was a physician who advocated for abortion rights in the twentieth century in the United States. In November of 1970, Hodgson…
AbortionInduced AbortionBirth ControlReproductive RightsContraception
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