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Tag Archives: contraception
Abortion Again! A Right, a Necessity, a Crime?
Around 1968, soon after it was founded, Population Connection—then called Zero Population Growth—called the members of its small New York group and asked them to counter a major march by the right-to-life forces, who were assembling in Central Park. My … Continue reading
The Hobby Lobby Ruling Shames America
A hundred years ago Margaret Sanger distributed five thousand flyers in Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood that read: Mothers! Can you afford to have a large family? Do you want any more children? If not, why do you have them? DO NOT … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, anthony comstock, birth control, brooklyn, brooklyn history, contraception, feminism, gregory goodwin pincus, hobby lobby, hobby lobby ruling, margaret sanger, new york city, new york city history, nyc history, reproductive justice, reproductive rights, reproductive rights movement, society for the suppression of vice, supreme court, teen pregnancy, unplanned pregnancies, women's health, women's rights
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Conception, Contraception Revisited
Forty years ago I wrote a young adult book entitled Conception, Contraception: A New Look. It details the miracle of conception and explores humanity’s millennia-long search to understand its mystery. The book was also meant to alert young readers to … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, anton von leeuwenhoek, birth control, conception contraception, contraception, feminism, guttmacher institute, karl ernst von baer, margaret sanger, overpopulation, planned parenthood, pro-choice, reproductive justice, reproductive rights, reproductive rights movement, right to choose, roe v wade, thomas malthus, women's rights
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Discussing Birth Control a Century After Margaret Sanger
The current discussion about birth control brings to mind Margaret Sanger, who a century ago fled her native land for Europe to avoid being put in jail for distributing birth control information via the U.S. Postal Service. Sanger spent the … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, aletta jacobs, birth control, contraception, margaret sanger, planned parenthood, pro-choice, the pill, women's rights
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