The Children's Era: Compare and Contrast

The Children's Era: Compare and Contrast

Anthony Comstock, The Comstock Act of 1873

Anthony Comstock was a United States politician who led a moral crusade against anything he believed to be "obscene"…including birth control. A Civil War veteran of the Union Army, he arrived in...

United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries (December 7, 1936)

Remember that time the United States sued a package of diaphragms? No?Well, it happened.In 1932, Dr. Hannah Stone, a physician at one of Margaret Sanger's birth control clinics, ordered diaphragms...

"Foreign Policy: Without Birth Control, Planet Doomed" by Malcolm Potts and Martha Campbell (May 11, 2011)

Writing for NPR in 2011, public health experts Malcolm Potts and Martha Campbell reprised some of the concerns about growing population size that were important to the Neo-Malthusians.Their article...

"Want to Fight Poverty? Expand Access to Contraception" by Catherine Rampell (September 24, 2015)

Writing for the Washington Post, Catherine Rampell argues that greater funding to provide contraceptives to poor women will actually save the government money both by decreasing the number of pregn...

Abolish Abortion Florida, Proposed Amendment to Florida Constitution (2016)

Abolish Abortion Florida is a group of anti-choice activists who call themselves "abolitionists." They believe the so-called "pro-life" movement supports abortion by legislating around it rather th...