The birth control movement in the United States was a social reform campaign beginning in 1914 that aimed to increase the availability of contraception in the U.S. through education and legalization.
Margaret Sanger, a birth control activist, her sister, Ethel Byrne, and Fania Mindell, leaving a courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, on 8 January 1917, during a trial for opening a birth control clinic
Robert Dale Owen wrote the first book on birth control published in the U.S.
Anthony Comstock was responsible for many anti-contraception laws in the U.S.
Margaret Sanger was a leader of the birth control movement.
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The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., or simply Planned Parenthood, is an American nonprofit organization that provides reproductive and sexual healthcare and sexual education in the Uni
Birth control movement in the United States
…to accept this new responsibility, and women continued to rely on unsafe and ineffective contraceptive advice from ill-informed sources. In 1942, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America was formed, creating a nationwide network of birth control clinics. After World War II, the movement to legalize birth control came to a gradual…
A Planned Parenthood supporter participates in a demonstration in support of the organization.
Leana Wen in April 2017
Location in Houston, Texas