HIS/125 The Rise Of Birth Control Clinics In The US

Name: HIS/125 The Rise Of Birth Control Clinics In The US
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HIS/125 The Rise of Birth Control Clinics in the US
Discuss the historical development of the birth control movement in the United States,
highlighting key figures, challenges, and social impacts. In your response, analyze how the birth
control movement reflects the social trends of the 1920s, particularly in relation to gender roles,
public health, and societal attitudes toward reproductive rights. Additionally, include a
discussion on how birth control advertisements during this time, such as those for cigarettes,
mirror the changing cultural landscape. Word Count Requirement: 800-1000 words

Birth control is a concept which has become very common in almost all the countries of the
world today and is no mystery to us. There are innumerable methods of protection against
diseases and pregnancy both for males and females and also we come across a lot of clinics
specifically for birth control which provide services to women at low cost or even free of cost in
over populated countries like India and China. The pioneering nation to have adopted birth
control was Egypt followed by Greece and Rome and most modern nation to have adopted birth
control is UK. It was Thomas Robert Malthus who at the age of nine went against the Church
and gave his famous theory of population where he says that if population is not controlled by
man the natural disasters would automatically reduce the population in the form of diseases,
epidemics and death. As the people in those times suffered the setback caused by over population
were forced to go against the verdict of the Church and adopt the birth control methods and the
movement took over at a very fast rate and by 1870, a lot of birth control devices like the
condoms, diaphragms, vaginal sponges, and medicated tampons were available to common man
at the English and the American pharmacies. As these devices were very easily available to
people, this forced the government to pass a bill barring the dispersal of these birth control
diplomacies across the state lines and mail. At that time the people were already having too
many children and were not even ready one more child, women took to even abortions, which
were no doubt dangerous and risky because they even caused the death of these women.
The major birth control clinic was founded by Aletta Jacobs in Amsterdam in 1878 and the first
clinic for birth control at the US was established by Margaret Sanger in Brooklyn N.Y in the year
1916. But unfortunately, Margaret Sanger was arrested and the clinic was closed by the
authorities and she was jailed for a month or so. She did not stop at that, and she established

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