The history of birth control goes back as far as 3000 B.C. when condoms were made out of fish bladder or animal intestines. In 1916 Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn with contraceptives that she smuggled from Europe. At this time “birth control was a radical idea that challenged conventional notions of women’s sexuality and reproduction” (483). Before 1916 both genders struggled to get birth control. In 1873 The Comstock Act allowed mail carriers to confiscate birth control that was purchased through the mail. In my eyes it is our right to choose what we do with our bodies whether it is an abortion, using, birth control, or sex before marriage. The government has attempted for many years to control us and take
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Planned Parenthood is a nonprofit organization that currently has over 800 clinics. Planned Parenthood also provides low cost health services to mothers and children. Also, a pro-choice organization that believe in us having a choice of what to do with our bodies. Sanger said it best when she said “It is none of society’s what a woman shall do with her body” (482). Birth Control was also frowned upon on, because society saw it as a green light to have sexual intercourse with as many people and as many times as possible. The need for birth control was a high demand especially for low income immigrant females that had no access to physicians or information regarding reproductive …show more content…
Birth control and abortion have come a long way but there is still much more work to do to help assist in educating the minority and low income groups. Having the right to choose to have an abortion or to choose to use birth control is right that we shouldn’t have to fight for. When did men have to fight for a right concerning their body? Religious groups and the government need to stop trying to control our lives. Now a day’s the government does assist low income families but that was not always the case. In the early 1900’s when abortion and birth control was illegal low income families, minority, and immigrant women had no government assistance to help support their families and yet they were not allowed to prevent their family from
Planned Parenthood is a nonprofit organization that currently has over 800 clinics. Planned Parenthood also provides low cost health services to mothers and children. Also, a pro-choice organization that believe in us having a choice of what to do with our bodies. Sanger said it best when she said “It is none of society’s what a woman shall do with her body” (482). Birth Control was also frowned upon on, because society saw it as a green light to have sexual intercourse with as many people and as many times as possible. The need for birth control was a high demand especially for low income immigrant females that had no access to physicians or information regarding reproductive …show more content…
Birth control and abortion have come a long way but there is still much more work to do to help assist in educating the minority and low income groups. Having the right to choose to have an abortion or to choose to use birth control is right that we shouldn’t have to fight for. When did men have to fight for a right concerning their body? Religious groups and the government need to stop trying to control our lives. Now a day’s the government does assist low income families but that was not always the case. In the early 1900’s when abortion and birth control was illegal low income families, minority, and immigrant women had no government assistance to help support their families and yet they were not allowed to prevent their family from