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Index: Birth Control
Sep 14,
1879
Margaret Sanger, Birth Control Pioneer, is Born
Dec 2,
1911
Harriet Pilpel, Reproductive Rights Pioneer, is Born
May 22,
1916
Margaret Sanger Speech Cancelled in St. Louis
Oct 16,
1916
Margaret Sanger Opens First Birth Control Clinic in America
Oct 25,
1916
Birth Control Pioneer Margaret Sanger Arrested For Opening First Birth Control Clinic in U.S.
Feb 2,
1917
Margaret Sanger Refuses to Obey New York Birth Control Law, Is Sentenced to Jail
May 6,
1917
Private — and Only — Showing of Margaret Sanger’s Birth Control Film
Jan 1,
1918
Condoms for Troops in WW I
Nov 11,
1921
First American Birth Control Conference
Feb 14,
1924
New Jersey Health Official Opposes Marriages of People With “Below Average Intelligence”
Apr 16,
1929
Margaret Sanger Appears on Stage Gagged in Boston
Apr 23,
1929
Mary Ware Dennett, Sex Education and Birth Control Pioneer, Found Guilty of Obscenity
Jan 12,
1930
ACLU Demands Inquiry into Missing Files in Dismissed Birth Control and Censorship Cases
Dec 7,
1936
OK to Import Japanese Diaphragms
Aug 4,
1937
Police Raids Force Closing of Massachusetts Birth Control Clinics
Jan 18,
1939
Birth Control Federation Founded; Later Renamed Planned Parenthood
Jan 30,
1942
Dr. Alan Guttmacher Issues Early Call for Legalized Abortion
Mar 5,
1942
American Birth Control Federation Changes Name to Planned Parenthood
Feb 1,
1943
Supreme Court Upholds Connecticut Anti-Birth Control Law
Jul 25,
1947
Mary Ware Dennett, Feminist, Birth Control Activist, and Civil Libertarian, Dies
May 11,
1960
FDA Approves First Birth Control Pill, Sexual Revolution Begins
Feb 23,
1961
National Council of Churches Endorses Birth Control
Jun 19,
1961
Justice Harlan II’s Historic Dissent on a Right to Privacy
Jun 7,
1965
A Constitutional Right to Privacy: “Griswold v. Connecticut”
Sep 6,
1966
Margaret Sanger, Birth Control Pioneer, Dies at Age 86
Apr 6,
1967
Bill Baird Arrested for Giving Contraceptive to Unmarried Woman
Mar 22,
1972
Unmarried Women Win Right to Contraceptives in Massachusetts
May 12,
1994
Abortion Clinic Access Law (FACE) Passes in Congress
Sep 29,
2015
Planned Parenthood President Rebuts Faked Attack Videos
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