10:832:302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Planned Parenthood, Title X, Voer
16 Oct 2016
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Reproductive rights: comstock, sanger, state initiatives, federal laws, supreme court. Personhood / right to privacy / trimesters / right to life / unborn. Abortion and birth control were legal at the founding of our nation: common before the quickening", many different methods of birth control. Abortion procedures, like any surgery were risky in the early 1800s: lack of hospitals, medical education and medications, higher infant and maternal mortality. 1821: connecticut: first prohibitions on abortion on state level. Mid 1850"s: ama: american medical association: jumped on bandwagon. Worried about competition from other groups - midwives, pharmacists, other "untrained" practitioners - doctors argued abortion was unsave and immoral. State by state efforts to prohibit abortion. Fueled by backlash from women"s rights movement / eugenics / and ama. 2: limits on communications through the mail. Margaret sanger: founder of planned parenthood as a challenge to comstock, saw women die from self-induced abortions.
