To: Greg or e who wrote (67744 ) 7/4/2015 7:03:20 AM From: Solon Respond to WHAT A LIFE!! Birth control--what an idea! But the church still fights it and still smears Nurse Margaret. But the battle for women's right to contraception and reproductive choice has been won! You and "Summit Ministries" can gnash your teeth all you like!1916 Sanger opened America's first birth control clinic paving the way for extensive dissemination of sexuality and family planning information. This clinic was the earliest forerunner of modern family planning clinics such as state health departments and Planned Parenthood.1921 Sanger initiated the American Birth Control League (ABCL), which, in 1942, became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The ABCL disseminated birth control information to health care providers and social workers and lobbied for family planning reforms.1936 Federal courts reinterpreted the Comstock Laws to permit doctors to prescribe birth control. The downside was that this took power away from nurses who were often the primary health care providers for poor women.1950 Margaret Sanger convinces the heiress, Katherine Dexter McCormick, to finance research on The Pill (oral contraceptives).1960 The Food and Drug Administration approved the Birth Control Pill. The Pill is the most frequently used form of birth control in the world and is more than 99% effective in the prevention of pregnancy.1965 The Supreme Court's decision in Griswold vs. Connecticut declared contraception a constitutional right for married couples (later, it was extended to unmarried women). This case helped define a constitutional right to privacy.1970 Title X provides federal funding for family planning services.1971 The Comstock laws were repealed.1973 Roe vs. Wade determined that right to privacy extends to abortion, thus making it legal for the first time since 1830.2000 The Food and Drug Administration approved RU-486, or mifepristone, as a non-surgical means of abortion thus expanding a woman's options and access to abortion.
