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Sanger uses the phrase in an issue of The Woman
Rebel, but is found in violation of the Comstock Law, which outlawed contraception.
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"Oct.16: Sanger, with her sister and a friend, opens the first birth control clinic in America, in Brooklyn, New York. For the first time in American history, women can receive organized instruction in birth control. Oct. 26: After only 10 days, Sanger's clinic is raided by the vice squad and shut down. The women are arrested and all the condoms and diaphragms at the clinic are confiscated." https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-timeline/
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Many women used a Lysol Douche, which was unsafe and ineffective.
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SCOTUS rules that married couples have a right to contraception.
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The Supreme Court declares a Massachusetts law
prohibiting the sale of contraceptives to unmarried women unconstitutional. https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/uploads/filer_public/ed/78/ed78a43a-e466-4194-870c-251794d9d22b/7-16-14-birth-control-timeline-final.pdf -
It was 4 years before companies started distributing them to women.
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Emergency contraceptive pill Plan B One-Step made available for over the counter sale to anyone over the age of 18.
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Women are unable to take the pills regularly due to the extreme prices, which make the drug ineffective.
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99% of all sexually active women have used a form of contraception at some point.
