Facts
1) The first birth control clinic oppened in 1916.
2) Sanger was arrested for simply giving out information about contraception.
3)"[The Comstock Act] classified all sorts of printed material as obscenity and specified contraception as obscene so that it [was] illegal to send through the U.S. mail ... information, even in a philosophical sense, about reducing a woman's fertility." || Could not speak, write, publish about contraception.
4) Contraception came out of the fear of death during childbirth.
5) There was a fear that contraception would lead to more women commiting adultery.
6) The New York Penal Code prevented Sanger from distributing things about contraception.
7) Mississippi rejected an initiative that would have granted rights of personhood to an fertilized egg.
8) Birth rate has been falling among wealthier and more educated women.
9) 1960s - role of government in overpopulation a big issue.
10) 1970 - Title 10 - much more government intervention that provides funding for family planning services
Questions
1) Wouldn't the Cornstock Act have been a violation of the first amendment?
2) Is there still a overpopulation problem now?
3) Isn't childbirth more safe now?
4) Why didn't people come up with more ways to control the population without contraception?
5) Do people want to have less kids now? Why or why not?
6) What were people's reactions to Sanger's "movement"?
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