Tuesday, November 22, 2011

How Birth Control and Abortion became Politicized

Facts

  1. The House voted to unfund Planned Parenthood.
  2. The first birth control clinic was opened in 1916 by Margret Sanger.
  3. Contraception used to be illegal.
  4. Back then many women did not use contraception, but did have abortions, almost 1 in 3 pregnancies.
  5. The first legal birth control clinic was opened in 1921.
  6. Herman Cain views Planned Parenthood negatively
  7. Sanger believed that the white race was above all other races.
  8. Sanger was opposed to abortion.
  9. The reform of birth control started as a liberal idea, then switched to a conservative one.
  10. In the '70's a poll showed that many republicans were  supportive of the American Birth Control league.
Questions:

  1. When birth control was first introduced what was the initial reaction to it?
  2. How dangerous was having an abortion back then?
  3. What was the mortality rate for child birth?
  4. Were there any exceptions to the Comstock act?
  5. 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?
  6. When did birth control become easily available to the public?

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