Index: Birth Control

Sep 14, 
1879

Margaret Sanger, Birth Control Pioneer, is Born

Dec 2, 
1911

Harriet Pilpel, Reproductive Rights Pioneer, is Born

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

Nov 11, 
1921

First American Birth Control Conference

Feb 14, 
1924

New Jersey Health Official Opposes Marriages of People With “Below Average Intelligence”

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

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

Feb 1, 
1943

Supreme Court Upholds Connecticut Anti-Birth Control Law

Jul 25, 
1947

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

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

Jun 7, 
1965

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

Sep 6, 
1966

Margaret Sanger, Birth Control Pioneer, Dies at Age 86

Apr 6, 
1967

Bill Baird Arrested for Giving Contraceptive to Unmarried Woman

Mar 22, 
1972

Unmarried Women Win Right to Contraceptives in Massachusetts

May 12, 
1994

Abortion Clinic Access Law (FACE) Passes in Congress

Sep 29, 
2015

Planned Parenthood President Rebuts Faked Attack Videos

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