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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…

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,…

By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy | Published: Oct 13, 2016

Margaret Goldwater advocated for birth control and reproductive rights in the United States during the twentieth century. Goldwater was a socialite…

By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy | Published: Apr 13, 2017

Norman Haire was a physician who advocated for eugenics, which is the betterment of human population by promoting positive traits, and birth control…

By: Rainey Horwitz | Published: Jan 22, 2018

Emma Goldman was a traveling public speaker and writer known for her anarchist political views as well as her opinions on contraception and birth…

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…

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…