HST 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: National Birth Control League, Mary Dennett, Margaret Sanger
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Illegal to send both birth control products or information. Doctors efforts to establish authority over reproductive healthcare for women. Greater tolerance for premarital sex appropriate if marriage follows. 1879, had 11 siblings immersed in bohemian culture of nyc birth control could relieve women from unwanted pregnancies. Viewed immigrants in bad health because of birthing. Doctors give respectability to cause of birth control. Sanger wants to manufacture them in us. 75 cents to manufacture doctors could charge 3. 50. Pa 884 patients, 95% were upper middle class could afford device. 1918 condoms could be use as a disease preventative (cid:862)do(cid:272)tors o(cid:374)l(cid:455)(cid:863) strategy to get birth control legalized. Sell, fit, and recommend these to the patients. Women buying other products thru mail (cid:862)(cid:271)la(cid:272)k (cid:373)arket(cid:863) Sanger first husband went to jail under comstock law (dennett supported him) Dennett national birth control league (amend ny comstock law) Criminalized info that was essential in human wellbeing. Infringing on evolution/ matter of the sex relation.
