10:832:302 Study Guide - Final Guide: Title X, Abortion-Rights Movements, Married People
8 Dec 2016
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Lecture 5 overview of abortion and birth. Marriage been around for about 1000 years. Marriage / family shifts around 50 years. Abortion and birth control legal during founding of. As medical knowledge got better // abortion services were. 1821: (connecticut) 1st prohibitions on abortion state level. Mid 1850"s ama a(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a(cid:374)"s (cid:373)edi(cid:272)al asso(cid:272)iatio(cid:374) ju(cid:373)ped o(cid:374) the (cid:271)a(cid:374)d(cid:449)ago(cid:374: worried about competition from other groups midwives / pharmacists others are untrained, doctors argued abortion was unsafe and immoral. Eugenics: moral arguments protect white womanhood. State by state efforts to prohibit abortion. Fueled by backlash fro(cid:373) ama / euge(cid:374)i(cid:272)s / (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s rights (cid:373)o(cid:448)e(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. Founded planned parenthood challenge to the comstock laws. Opened 1st birth control clinic in us. Arrested 1916: founded american birth control league 1921 forerunner of planned parenthood, challenged comstock through court, us v. one package 1936. Science of improving genetic quality of human population: controlled breeding get better heritable characteristics, state laws allow forced sterilization.
