A Conversation With Faye Wattleton: Part 3, Family Planning and Race
Faye Wattleton (left) with Maxine Waters and Jesse Jackson, 1992 Faye Wattleton was president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 1978 to 1992. She was generous enough to speak to me on...
View ArticleFrom Censorship to Insufficiency: Sex Education from the Dennett Trials to Today
In an article published the day after her trial, the New York Times described the defendant as a “gray-haired, kindly-looking matron.” When she took the stand in the Federal District Court in Brooklyn,...
View ArticleHobby Lobby: Birth Control and the Law
Birth control activists Fania Mindell and Margaret Sanger inside the Brownsville birth control clinic, circa October 1916 In 1964, when I was a 16-year-old college freshman, my Bronx pediatrician asked...
View ArticleWhen Contraception Was a Crime: Griswold v. Connecticut
Estelle Griswold, left, and Cornelia Jahncke, of Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut, celebrate the Supreme Court’s decision in favor of birth control access. The right to access birth control was...
View ArticleBrothers in Arms, Part 1: Racist Anti-Abortion Rhetoric from the Restell...
Newspaper illustration of Madame Restell in jail, February 23, 1878 This article is our first installment in a series that explores the historical and contemporary links between racial intolerance and...
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