HIS 184 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: American Birth Control League, Margaret Sanger, Sigmund Freud
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The comstock law 1873 stated that the through the u. s federal mail it is illegal to send contraceptive devices and information, which had a lot of support by doctors, physicians and males. They viewed contraception as unnatural and white americans as well because they feared race suicide; more minorities than white people. The comstock law had opposition from the radical left and free lovers. Margaret sanger coined the birth control movement: margaret sanger, a nurse, (iww) worked on the lower east side. She encountered a lot of pregnant women of the henry street settlement house. In addition to observing the lack of control of fertility; she was deeply disturbed by the self-induced abortion death of a young mother. She was part of socialist activism in the united states and politicized by the industrial workers of the world. Iww was a socialist organization and opposed and undermine the hard-edge of capitalism. In 1914, margaret sanger began publishing her own monthly magazine,
