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YEAR: 1991

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

75 years of family planning in America: a chronology of major events.

Revised ed.

AUTHORS

Knowles J

SOURCE

New York, New York, Planned Parenthood Federation of America [PPFA], 1991

Aug. [38] p.

ABSTRACT

Some of the highlights in the chronology of major events in the 75 years of family planning (FP) in America include:

the opening of the Brownsville Contraceptive Clinic in 1916 in New York and the arrest of Margaret Sanger, Ethyl

Byrne, and Fania Mindell in violation of the Comstock act; the political activity of Margaret Sanger in teaching birth

control, working to change the law, and forming the Birth Control Federation, which was the predecessor of Planned

Parenthood; and the development of the oral contraceptive which was facilitated by the research of Dr. Gregory

Pincus. Another notable in the effort to change attitudes toward a woman's right to safe and effective birth control

was Dr. Alan Guttmacher. The discussion of the legalization of family planning recognizes the 1965 U.S. Supreme

Court case, Griswold versus Connecticut, which overturned State laws prohibiting contraceptive use by married

couples, the 1967 UN declaration of the human right to FP, and Rowe versus Wade. Antiabortion activity is marked

by the Hyde Amendment in 1976 which restricted government support for abortions for poor women, and the Mexico

city policy in 1984, which denied US FP funding to overseas nongovernmental organizations that use non-US funding

for abortion services, counseling, or referral. The case of Webster versus Reproductive Health Services in 1989

allowed states to bar the use of public facilities for abortion. Other legal decisions allowed states to restrict the

access of unmarried minors to abortion by requiring parental notification. In 1990, the USAID stopped assistance to

International Planned Parenthood. 20% of Americans support the antiabortion movement. The Planned Parenthood

Federation of America is the primary advocate of women's fundamental right to reproductive equality and self-

determination. A listing of important dates in the history of the FP movement is given. (PubHealth.info Document ID:

CONT3T 2076-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "75 years of family planning in America: a chronology of

major events. Revised ed.", is(are) Knowles J. The source of this article is "New York, New York, Planned

Parenthood Federation of America [PPFA], 1991 Aug. [38] p.". This article was published in 1991 in English

language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT3T 2076-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 12076

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