PSY354H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fetus, Sexual Intercourse, Itch
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Sanger is known as the grandfather of the modern birth control movement. Synthesis was a challenging process. so it couldn"t be produced with any quantity that could be relatively quantitative to any society. But gradually there was some support by individuals. Major issue: the law: the initial objection to the use of any birth control wasn"t from the church, but was really from the lawmakers. There were two key decisions that happens in the. Us government that happened about 30 years when estrogen was identified. 1965: griswold vs. connecticut: this was the connecticut law that prohibited any law or contraception that can prevent getting pregnant. Up to 2 years in prison: contraception could be sold, but it was thought that the only people who could buy contraception were married individuals. 1972: eisenstadt v. baird: there was a court case that declared there was a discrimination against unmarried individuals from purchasing contraception"s.
