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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
Vasectomy for Male Sterilization
By: Cole Nichols
| Published: Jun 03, 2024
A vasectomy is a surgery that works to inhibit reproduction by interrupting the passage of sperm through the vas deferens, a tube in the male…
VasectomyVasovasostomyVasectomy ReversalEugenicsSterilization, Reproductive
Annie Wood Besant (1847–1933)
By: Caroline Meek, Claudia Nunez-Eddy
| Published: Dec 07, 2017
Annie Wood Besant was a social activist who advocated for women’s access to birth control as well as marriage reform, labor reform, and Indian…
Besant, Annie, 1847-1933Knowlton, Charles, 1800-1850Bradlaugh, Charles, 1833-1891Birth ControlObscenity (Law)--Great Britain
The Comstock Law (1873)
By: Sheraden Seward
| Published: Jan 13, 2009
The Comstock Law was a controversial law because it limited the reproductive rights of women and violated every person's right to privacy. This…
LawReproductionReproductive RightsAbortionContraception
“HPV in the Etiology of Human Cancer” (2006) by Nubia Muñoz, Xavier Castellsagué, Amy Berrington de González, and Lutz Gissmann
By: Maeen Arslan
| Published: Jun 21, 2022
In 2006, the article “HPV in the Etiology of Human Cancer,” hereafter “HPV and Etiology,” by Nubia Muñoz, Xavier Castellsagué, Amy Berrington de…
LiteraturePapillomavirusesCervix uteri--CancerVaccine mandatesMouth--Cancer
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
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
Pope Pius XI (1857-1939)
By: Katherine Brind'Amour
| Published: Nov 11, 2007
Pope Pius XI, born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, was born to the wealthy owner of a silk factory on 31 May 1857 in Desio, Italy. He was ordained to…
PeoplereligionReproductionCatholicismPopes
The Dalkon Shield
By: Rainey Horwitz
| Published: Jan 10, 2018
The Dalkon Shield was an intrauterine contraceptive device (IUD) that women used in the early 1970s and 1980s. Produced by the A.H. Robins Company in…
TechnologyDalkon Shield (Intrauterine contraceptive)Intrauterine contraceptivesCopper intrauterine contraceptivesContraceptives
Gordon Watkins Douglas (1921-2000)
By: Alexis Abboud
| Published: Sep 15, 2014
Gordon Watkins Douglas researched cervical cancer, breach delivery, and treatment of high blood pressure during pregnancy in the US during the…
GynecologyDiagnosis, NoninvasiveEmbryologyAbortionAbortion services