How Birth Control and Abortion became Politicized
Facts
- The House voted to unfund Planned Parenthood.
- The first birth control clinic was opened in 1916 by Margret Sanger.
- Contraception used to be illegal.
- Back then many women did not use contraception, but did have abortions, almost 1 in 3 pregnancies.
- The first legal birth control clinic was opened in 1921.
- Herman Cain views Planned Parenthood negatively
- Sanger believed that the white race was above all other races.
- Sanger was opposed to abortion.
- The reform of birth control started as a liberal idea, then switched to a conservative one.
- In the '70's a poll showed that many republicans were supportive of the American Birth Control league.
Questions:
- When birth control was first introduced what was the initial reaction to it?
- How dangerous was having an abortion back then?
- What was the mortality rate for child birth?
- Were there any exceptions to the Comstock act?
- When it was decided that women didn't have the right to birth control, did they back up this decision using the constitution in anyway?
- When did birth control become easily available to the public?
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