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    The fight regarding the birth control movement, generated long before the first oral contraceptive was approved in 1960. In 1914, many feminist such as Emma Goldman, Mary Dennett and Margaret Sanger initiated and led a social reform campaign with an aspiration to increase the availability of contractions throughout the United States through education. Margaret Sanger, also known as the “mother of the birth control movement” published many articles addressing the difficulty of motherhood in women

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    linen cloth, soaked in chemicals and dried (A Brief History). However, the modern push towards birth control started in Great Britain when overpopulation began to be an issue. According to Birth Control (2013) many forms of contraception were already being used, such as rubber condoms, diaphragms, chemical suppositories, vaginal sponges and medicated tampons. According to Brodie (1998) women wanted to control fertility so badly that they believed that they had an infertile or sterile time of the month

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    While the Chilean government was struggling with population growth, they still denied access to contraceptives in order to reduce unwanted births. The Catholic church was heavily involved in many people’s decisions, especially regarding family planning. Once contraceptives were introduced to families in Latin America in the early 1960s, a lot of the ideas the Catholic church had against family

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    For thousands of years forms of birth control have been around. People have fought for hundreds of years to make birth control available to all women. Birth control was banned at point in the United Sates. According to the authors at Wikipedia.org, “Contraception was not restricted by the law in the United States throughout most of the 19th century, but in the 1870s a social purity movement grew in strength, aimed at outlawing vice in general, and prostitution and obscenity in particular. Composed

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    Teenagers should have access to birth control devices. The most compelling argument against this thesis is the idea that they are not emotionally mature enough to be having sex at all, in that it is a meaningful commitment that should be only taken up by adults who have the ability to consent fully and understand the consequences of their behavior. Additionally, sexual behavior contains a lot of risks of many different natures. There is the emotional risk of engaging in such intimate activity

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    Throughout research and surveys professionals have supported the idea of making birth control available to all women. In “Planned Parenthood: Ideas for the 1980s” Carl W. Tyler proposes his four ideas for Planned Parenthood. His four ideas are reproductive choice, reproduction free of risk, the quality of parenting, and freedom from harm. Carl is a physician specializing in gynecology and in obstetrics for 15 years. His idea of “All individuals of reproductive age should be free to determine the

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    Contraception and Abortion In The Law Contraception Overview "Birth control" illustrates every approach applied to avert a woman from becoming pregnant. During the 1800s, laws in the United States barred contraception, once abstinence and anti-vice groups supported prohibiting contraception methods, means, and knowledge about contraception devices. Many factions deemed birth control information to be offensive and lewd; an idea that was prevalent during1873, Congress accepted the Comstock Act prohibiting

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    "No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother." Quoted by a women’s rights activist Margaret Sanger. Sanger is responsible for the word birth control and fighting to make it legal. On September 14, 1879 Margaret Sanger was born in Corning, New York. Although Sanger had ten siblings, Anne, her mother, had numerous of miscarriages. Sanger supposed that her mother’s pregnancies affected her health and played a part of her early death. In 1896

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    Public discussions of birth control were criminalized under the Comstock Act of 1873 because people believed it was immoral. Margaret Sanger, who had opened the first birth control clinic in 1916 in spite of the Comstock Act of 1873, was a feminist and advocate of eugenics. After serving prison time, Sanger returned publicly and illegally with drive to present a strong argument that defended the moral use of birth control. Prior to her morally controversial 1921 speech, Sanger was arrested in New

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    villages. Maya, which means beauty, is a birth control pill that has been marketed toward women, but as stated before, women do not hold the purchasing power. Women both listen to

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