Topic: Birth Control

Sep 14,

1879

Margaret Sanger, Birth Control Pioneer, is Born

Dec 2,

1911

Harriet Pilpel, Reproductive Rights Pioneer, is Born

Apr 2,

1914

Post Office Bans Margaret Sanger’s “Woman Rebel”

May 22,

1916

Margaret Sanger Speech Cancelled in St. Louis

Oct 16,

1916

Margaret Sanger Opens First Birth Control Clinic in America

Oct 25,

1916

Birth Control Pioneer Margaret Sanger Arrested For Opening First Birth Control Clinic in U.S.

Feb 2,

1917

Margaret Sanger Refuses to Obey New York Birth Control Law, Is Sentenced to Jail

May 6,

1917

Private — and Only — Showing of Margaret Sanger’s Birth Control Film

Jan 1,

1918

Condoms for Troops in WW I

Mar 17,

1921

Dr. Marie Stopes Opens First Birth Control Clinic in England

Nov 1,

1921

Margaret Sanger Founds American Birth Control League

Nov 11,

1921

First American Birth Control Conference

Nov 13,

1921

New York Police Halt Birth Control Meeting at Town Hall

Nov 18,

1921

Margaret Sanger Gives Previously Banned Speech -“The Morality of Birth Control”

Jul 8,

1928

Crystal Eastman, Civil Liberties Pioneer, Dies

Apr 15,

1929

NYC Birth Control Clinic Raided, Dr. Hannah Stone Arrested

Apr 16,

1929

Margaret Sanger Appears on Stage Gagged in Boston

Apr 23,

1929

Mary Ware Dennett, Sex Education and Birth Control Pioneer, Found Guilty of Obscenity

Jan 12,

1930

ACLU Demands Inquiry into Missing Files in Dismissed Birth Control and Censorship Cases

Mar 3,

1930

Mary Ware Dennett, Birth Control, Sex Education Advocate, Is Vindicated

Apr 6,

1931

U.S. versus Married Love . . . . Really?

Jul 18,

1931

“Contraception” Not Obscene

May 2,

1936

YWCA to Include Sex Education in its Program

Dec 7,

1936

OK to Import Japanese Diaphragms

Aug 4,

1937

Police Raids Force Closing of Massachusetts Birth Control Clinics

Jan 18,

1939

Birth Control Federation Founded; Later Renamed Planned Parenthood

Jan 30,

1942

Dr. Alan Guttmacher Issues Early Call for Legalized Abortion

Mar 5,

1942

American Birth Control Federation Changes Name to Planned Parenthood

Jul 25,

1947

Mary Ware Dennett, Feminist, Birth Control Activist, and Civil Libertarian, Dies

Apr 15,

1955

First Abortion Conference in the U.S.

May 11,

1960

FDA Approves First Birth Control Pill, Sexual Revolution Begins

Feb 23,

1961

National Council of Churches Endorses Birth Control

Jun 19,

1961

Justice Harlan II’s Historic Dissent on a Right to Privacy

Nov 10,

1961

Estelle Griswold Arrested – Road to a Right to Privacy Begins

Jun 7,

1965

A Constitutional Right to Privacy: “Griswold v. Connecticut”

Nov 2,

1965

First Federally Supported Birth Control Clinic Opens

Sep 6,

1966

Margaret Sanger, Birth Control Pioneer, Dies at Age 86

Apr 6,

1967

Bill Baird Arrested for Giving Contraceptive to Unmarried Woman

Apr 25,

1967

Colorado Passes Nation’s First Abortion Reform Law

Jul 1,

1970

New York Abortion-Reform Law Takes Effect

Apr 11,

1970

Governor Rockefeller Signs NY Abortion Reform Law

Apr 21,

1971

Vuitch: Supreme Court Rules in First-Ever Abortion Case

Mar 22,

1972

Unmarried Women Win Right to Contraceptives in Massachusetts

Nov 14,

1972

“Maude’s Dilemma” – An Abortion Mentioned on a TV Sitcom

Jan 22,

1973

A Constitutional Right to an Abortion: “Roe v. Wade”

Apr 23,

1991

Harriet Pilpel Dies; Civil Libertarian, Reproductive Rights Pioneer

May 31,

2009

Dr. George Tiller, Abortion Provider, Shot and Killed

Sep 29,

2015

Planned Parenthood President Rebuts Faked Attack Videos

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