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Enovid: The First Hormonal Birth Control Pill
By: Aliya Buttar, Sheraden Seward
| Published: Jan 20, 2009
Enovid was the first hormonal birth control pill. G. D. Searle and Company began marketing Enovid as a contraceptive in 1960. The technology was…
TechnologyContraceptionReproductionReproductive Rights
Katharine McCormick (1876-1967)
By: Aliya Buttar
| Published: Nov 08, 2007
Katharine Dexter McCormick, who contributed the majority of funding for the development of the oral contraceptive pill, was born to Josephine and…
PeopleContraceptionethicsReproductionReproductive Rights
The Mothers' Clinic
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…
OrganizationContraceptionOrganizationsReproductionReproductive Rights
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
Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
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…
AnarchismReproductive RightsAbortionBirth ControlHomestead Strike, Homestead, Pa., 1892
Marie Stopes International
By: Ellen M. DuPont
| Published: Jul 22, 2008
Marie Stopes International (MSI) is a not-for-profit organization based in the United Kingdom that promotes reproductive and sexual health. It grew…
Organizationpublic healthOrganizationsReproductionReproductive Rights
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
Nelson v. Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson (1973)
By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Nov 13, 2016
The 1973 case Nelson v. Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson established the legality of abortion in Arizona. The Arizona Court of Appeals ruled that…
LawPlanned Parenthood Federation of AmericaBirth control clinicsAbortionAbortion--Law and legislation
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1880-1958)
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…
Peoplepublic healthethicsReproductionBiography