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Episodes tagged "birth control": 1 through 3 of 3

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  1. Morality and Birth Control- What Every Woman Should Know
    date February, 1918map New York, New Yorktags women's health, Margaret Sanger, birth control

      Morality and Birth Control by Margaret Sanger is a pamphlet written in 1918 questioning the morality of denying the knowledge of birth control to working class women. She compares the lack of education given to women at that time to the “shackles of slavery.” Sanger believes that birth control is the first step towards women’s freedom. She gives several examples of how not only women, but...

  2. Frederick A. Blossom resigns post as Director of the National Birth Control League
    date December 8, 1916map Allegheny, Pennsylvaniatags birth control, Frederick A. Blossom, Birth Control Movement, Margaret Sanger, Virginia T. Heidelberg, NBCL

    Conflict remained high between Frederick A. Blossom, a socialist party member from Cleveland, and the members of the Executive Committee of the National Birth Control League. The Executive Committee of this organization advocated the removal of birth control from “the category of obscene materials and information”. The open bill versus the doctors-only bill was the contested topic up for debate. ...

  3. Birth Control
    date August 18, 1968map Cumberland, North Carolinatags birth control, Cold War, Women

    In the Fayetteville Observer on Sunday August 18, 1968, the paper noted that a Russian man came up to a Westerner and asked him for some birth control pills for his wife.  Normally, a man would ask for whisky or chewing gum, but this time it was different, and the request took the Westerner by surprise.  The reason he asked for birth control pills was because there was a housing shortage in Russia...