“Planned Parenthood”. Today, the organization’s name can be heard by many Americans on television, newspapers, and magazines. Many do not know that this organization started as American Birth Control League in 1921 by Margaret Sanger. According to Rachel Galvin, the author of the article named “Margaret Sanger’s Deeds of Terrible Virtue”, “Sanger opened the first American birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn, on October 16, 1916...The clinic was in direct violation of laws prohibiting the distribution of contraception by anyone outside the medical profession and for any purpose other than disease prevention” (2). Many women like Sanger fought for the legalization of birth control, and continue to fight today. Sanger is still considered
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In the article titled, “How My Position on Abortion Changed over TIme,” John Richard wrote on page one that,
“The fact is only a very small percentage of abortions are due to rape, incest or the life of the mother being at stake. An overwhelming percentage of abortions are carried out for convenience sake, such as financial hardship, one or both not desiring to marry and not feeling ready to start a family or interrupt a career.These obstacles, though difficult, can be overcome when put in the context of the life or death of an unborn …show more content…
With birth control available, many women felt liberated from the duty of having children. They could enjoy pleasures without a cost. Donald DeMarco in his article called “The Pill: From Freedom to Fiasco” on page one stated, “G.D.Searle, and other pill manufacturers that followed, were selling ‘freedom,’ and women in large numbers were buying it.” Women could finally enjoy sexual activities with these ‘freedom’ pills that took away the concern about children. In many cases, this made men feel free from continuing their lives with women they had gotten pregnant. Both males and females could easily reject the idea of having children as a result.The downside of that freedom was and still is that contraceptives encourage people to engage in sexual activities. Sexually transmitted diseases are in no case prevented with a pill. It diverted the meaning of sex from love to lust, which the society has trouble defining the difference between the two. “From a historical viewpoint over the last four decaded, it can be accurately be said that contraception’s freedom was an illusion, its failure was a tragedy, and the fiasco it engendered was a catastrophe” (DeMarco 3). From the outside, birth control seem like a good offer until the topic is dug deeper and really understood. In the article named “Others Not Likely to Adopt School’s Contraception Move” on page one stated, “no national
In the article titled, “How My Position on Abortion Changed over TIme,” John Richard wrote on page one that,
“The fact is only a very small percentage of abortions are due to rape, incest or the life of the mother being at stake. An overwhelming percentage of abortions are carried out for convenience sake, such as financial hardship, one or both not desiring to marry and not feeling ready to start a family or interrupt a career.These obstacles, though difficult, can be overcome when put in the context of the life or death of an unborn …show more content…
With birth control available, many women felt liberated from the duty of having children. They could enjoy pleasures without a cost. Donald DeMarco in his article called “The Pill: From Freedom to Fiasco” on page one stated, “G.D.Searle, and other pill manufacturers that followed, were selling ‘freedom,’ and women in large numbers were buying it.” Women could finally enjoy sexual activities with these ‘freedom’ pills that took away the concern about children. In many cases, this made men feel free from continuing their lives with women they had gotten pregnant. Both males and females could easily reject the idea of having children as a result.The downside of that freedom was and still is that contraceptives encourage people to engage in sexual activities. Sexually transmitted diseases are in no case prevented with a pill. It diverted the meaning of sex from love to lust, which the society has trouble defining the difference between the two. “From a historical viewpoint over the last four decaded, it can be accurately be said that contraception’s freedom was an illusion, its failure was a tragedy, and the fiasco it engendered was a catastrophe” (DeMarco 3). From the outside, birth control seem like a good offer until the topic is dug deeper and really understood. In the article named “Others Not Likely to Adopt School’s Contraception Move” on page one stated, “no national