The Progression of Birth Control
The Progression of Birth Control.
History has always been a struggle for women. Being seen as lessor beings, not being able to own property, not being able to work, to vote, to control their right to have children have all been the topic of many struggles. Over time women have fought to have these rights given to them. One of the many rights that has been fought for and won is the right to control when we have children. Margaret Sanger was the leading women for this movement. She started to educate women about sex in 1912. She was a nurse who had treated many women who had back alley abortions done. She had dreams of a “magic pill” that would one day prevent pregnancy. “No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether or not she will be a mother,” Sanger said. (Margaret Sanger, 2013) In the battle for this cause Sanger faced being arrested and going to jail. In 1914, she published a paper that supported a women’s right to birth control. Rather than face jail time she fled the country. While overseas she continued to work on her cause by researching other forms of birth control. After the charges were dropped she returned to the states. She and her sister were arrested for breaking the Comstock law by providing women with information and fitting women for diaphragms. (Margaret Sanger, 2013) In 1921 Sanger established the American Birth Control League. This was the precursor to Planned Parenthood. In 1923, while she was affiliated with the league, she opened the first legal birth control clinic in the United States. The clinic was named the Birth Control Research Bureau. (Margaret Sanger, 2013) These steps in women’s right led to the Food and Drugs Administration approving birth control pills in 1960
“The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the world's first commercially produced birth-control bill--Enovid-10, made by the G.D. Searle Company of Chicago, Illinois.
Development of "the pill," as it became
History has always been a struggle for women. Being seen as lessor beings, not being able to own property, not being able to work, to vote, to control their right to have children have all been the topic of many struggles. Over time women have fought to have these rights given to them. One of the many rights that has been fought for and won is the right to control when we have children. Margaret Sanger was the leading women for this movement. She started to educate women about sex in 1912. She was a nurse who had treated many women who had back alley abortions done. She had dreams of a “magic pill” that would one day prevent pregnancy. “No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether or not she will be a mother,” Sanger said. (Margaret Sanger, 2013) In the battle for this cause Sanger faced being arrested and going to jail. In 1914, she published a paper that supported a women’s right to birth control. Rather than face jail time she fled the country. While overseas she continued to work on her cause by researching other forms of birth control. After the charges were dropped she returned to the states. She and her sister were arrested for breaking the Comstock law by providing women with information and fitting women for diaphragms. (Margaret Sanger, 2013) In 1921 Sanger established the American Birth Control League. This was the precursor to Planned Parenthood. In 1923, while she was affiliated with the league, she opened the first legal birth control clinic in the United States. The clinic was named the Birth Control Research Bureau. (Margaret Sanger, 2013) These steps in women’s right led to the Food and Drugs Administration approving birth control pills in 1960
“The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the world's first commercially produced birth-control bill--Enovid-10, made by the G.D. Searle Company of Chicago, Illinois.
Development of "the pill," as it became