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Harry Clay Sharp (1870-1940)
By: Cole Nichols
| Published: Jun 08, 2022
Harry Clay Sharp was a surgeon who performed one of the first recorded vasectomies with the purpose of sterilizing a patient. Sterilization is the…
VasectomyEugenicsSterilizationFamily PlanningMale Sterilization
No-scalpel Vasectomy
By: Cole Nichols
| Published: Jul 04, 2022
No-scalpel vasectomy, or NSV or keyhole vasectomy, is a surgical method of sterilization that involves puncturing the skin of the scrotum to access…
TechnologySterilizationVasectomyMale SterilizationFamily Planning
Ernst Gräfenberg (1881–1957)
By: Baylee A. Edwards
| Published: Nov 17, 2022
Ernst Gräfenberg was a physician and researcher who studied sexology, the study of human sexuality, in both Germany and the United States during the…
G spotFemale orgasmGynecologySexology--ResearchWorld War, 1914-1918
The Shettles Method of Sex Selection
By: Alysse Blight
| Published: Apr 03, 2019
In the 1960s in the United States Landrum B. Shettles developed the Shettles method, which is a procedure for couples to use prior to and during an…
TechnologySex PreselectionSex PredeterminationFamily PlanningSex Chromosomes
Chicago Women’s Liberation Union (1969–1977)
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: Jul 03, 2018
The Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, hereafter Union or CWLU, was a feminist union that operated in Chicago, Illinois, from 1969 to 1977 and was the…
OrganizationWomen's rightsSexismFamily Planningfeminism
Your Baby’s Sex: Now You Can Choose (1970), by David M. Rorvik and Landrum B. Shettles
By: Alysse Blight
| Published: Oct 31, 2019
In the book Your Baby’s Sex: Now You Can Choose, David Michael Rorvik and Landrum Brewer Shettles describe methods that couples can use prior to and…
LiteratureSex PreselectionSex PredeterminationFamily PlanningGender
“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
A. Z. v. B. Z. (2000)
By: Jennifer E. Chapman
| Published: Nov 01, 2013
In A.Z. v. B.Z. (2000), the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in Boston, Massachusetts, affirmed a lower courtÕs decision, ruling that…
LawFrozen human embryosFertilization in VitroPregnancyEmbryos
Bellotti v. Baird (1979)
By: Victoria Higginbotham
| Published: Jul 25, 2019
On 2 July 1979, the United States Supreme Court decided Bellotti v. Baird, ruling that a Massachusetts law that prohibited minors from obtaining…
LawFamily PlanningTrials (Abortion)AbortionAbortion--Law and legislation--United States
Roe v. Wade (1973)
By: Sharaden Seward, Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Jul 03, 2018
In the 1973 case of Roe v. Wade, the US Supreme Court ruled that laws banning abortion violated the US Constitution. The Texas abortion laws,…
LawBirth control clinicsAbortionFamily planning servicesAbortion--Law and legislation--United States