Margaret Sanger, her sister, Ethel Byrne, and Fania Mindell opened the first birth control clinic in the United States in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York on October 16, 1916. The clinic was later raided by the NYPD, and all three women were arrested and charged with violating the Comstock Act for distributing obscene materials. After laws governing birth control were relaxed, Sanger founded the American Birth Control League in 1921, which was renamed the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1942.
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Tagged American Birth Control League, birth control, Cecile Richards, Charles Darwin, Comstock Act, Dan Forest, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Ethel Byrne, Fania Mindell, Hillary Clinton, Ku Klux Klan, Margaret Sanger, MLK Day, Planned Parenthood, Students for Life of America
Once upon a time in America, society demanded civility and honored women and motherhood.
But honor seems to have been tossed by the wayside in this modern era and exchanged for a cheap view of the female sex.
Pro-life advocate Chris Iverson noted this fact in an article here at IFI recently:
The U.S. abortion rate is the lowest in recorded history! The Guttmacher Institute found that there were 14.6 abortions for every 1,000 women aged 15-44 in 2014. That’s lower than the abortion rate in 1973 (when the Roe v. Wade case was decided) and every year since then.
Republicans in Washington, D.C. are taking steps to defund Planned Parenthood and prevent the use of federal taxdollars for abortions.
Illinois Democrats are going in the opposite direction. State Representative Sara Feigenholtz (D-Chicago) has re-introduced legislation that would …
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Tagged Abortion, American Birth Control League, Chris Iverson, HB 40, Margaret Sanger, Medicaid, Planned Parenthood, Ralph Rivera, Sara Feigenholtz, taxpayer funding of abortion, The Guttmacher Institute