COMSTOCK LAW (1873)

 

This law placed contraception, abortion, and materials related to them in the same category as pornography, and is sent through the mail, the sender could receive a prison sentence and a fine.

 

FROM THE PHYSICIANS’ CAMPAIGN TO ROE V. WADE

 

How was making abortion illegal related to the broader campaign by doctors to gain control of medicine in the U.S. in the 1800s?

 

What was meant by the term “race suicide”?

 

Why was abortion characterized as selfish?

 

Who was Sherri Finkbine and why was her situation important in the discussion of abortion in the U.S. in the 1960s?

 

When did the FDA approve the sale of oral contraceptives?

 

What was Griswold v. Connecticut?