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Henry Morgentaler (1923-2013)
By: Sepehr Abdi-Moradi
| Published: Jun 09, 2017
Henry Morgentaler was a physician who performed abortions, acted as a reproductive rights activist, and advocated for legal access to abortions in…
AbortionObstetrics--SurgeryBirth ControlReproductive RightsCanada
Matthew Stanley Meselson (1930– )
By: Victoria Hernandez
| Published: May 23, 2017
Matthew Stanley Meselson conducted DNA and RNA research in the US during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He also influenced US policy…
Holmes, Frederic LawrenceMeselson, MatthewStahl, Franklin W.Watson, James D., 1928-Crick, Francis, 1916-2004
The Malthusian League (1877–1927)
By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Apr 27, 2017
The Malthusian League, founded in London, England, in 1877 promoted the use of contraception to limit family size. Activists Charles Bradlaugh and…
OrganizationEugenicsContraceptionBirth ControlReproductive Rights
Mary Coffin Ware Dennett (1872-1947)
By: Malladi Lakshmeeramya
| Published: Jun 22, 2016
Mary Coffin Ware Dennett advocated for social reform in the United States in the early twentieth century, particularly regarding sex education and…
Obscenity (Law)Obscenity (Law)--United StatesSex EducationReproductive HealthReproductive health--Law and legislation
Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson, Inc., v. Marks (1972)
By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Nov 13, 2016
In the 1972 case Planned Parenthood Center of Tucson, Inc., v. Marks, the Arizona Court of Appeals required the Arizona Superior Court to rehear the…
LawPlanned Parenthood Federation of AmericaBirth control clinicsAbortionAbortion--Law and legislation
First American Birth Control Clinic (The Brownsville Clinic), 1916
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: Oct 11, 2019
On 16 October 1916, Margaret Sanger opened one of the first birth control clinics in the United States in Brooklyn, New York, which some have called…
OrganizationBirth ControlUnwanted pregnancyAbortionMargaret Sanger Papers Project
"Experimental Studies on Congenital Malformations" (1959), by James G. Wilson
By: Chanapa Tantibanchachai
| Published: Jun 15, 2017
The article Experimental Studies on Congenital Malformations was published in the Journal of Chronic Diseases in 1959. The author, James G. Wilson,…
LiteratureAbnormalities, HumanBirth DefectsTeratologymalformations
Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903-1967)
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,…
PeopleReproductionBiographyContraception
Thesis: Changes in American Judicial Behavior in Disability Discrimination Cases in Response to Anti-Discrimination Legislation
By: Nathaniel Ross
| Published: Aug 26, 2024
Disabled people have historically lacked legal protection and often faced discrimination in healthcare, reproductive rights, education, and more…
Disability studiesLawSpecial EducationAmericans with Disabilities ActDisability Law
Roy Chapman Andrews (1884-1960)
By: Madison Paige
| Published: Jan 22, 2015
Roy Chapman Andrews traveled the world studying fossils, from mammals to dinosaurs, during the first half of the twentieth century. Andrews worked…
WhalesWhales, FossilDinosaursNatural history museumsDinosaurs--Eggs