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201 relations: Abortion, Abraham Jacobi, African Americans, African Americans and birth control, Aletta Jacobs, American Birth Control League, American Medical Association, Angela Davis, Annie Besant, Anthony Comstock, Anti-abortion movements, Augustus Noble Hand, Barack Obama, Beginning of pregnancy controversy, Ben Reitman, Bill Baird (activist), Billy Sunday, Birth control, Birth Control (film), Birth Control Council of America, Birth control in the United States, Birth Control Review, Blacklisting, Blanche Ames Ames, Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., Calendar-based contraceptive methods, Carole McCann, Catholic Church in the United States, Cervical cap, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Davenport, Charles Knowlton, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Clarence Darrow, Clelia Duel Mosher, Clinic, Clinical Research Bureau, Coitus interruptus, Combined oral contraceptive pill, Comstock laws, Condom, Contraceptive mandate, Contraceptive sponge, Corporation, Curriculum, D. M. Bennett, Danco Laboratories, David M. Kennedy (historian), Demographic history of the United States, Diaphragm (birth control), ..., Douche, Eisenstadt v. Baird, Emergency contraception, Emma Goldman, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Ethel Byrne, Eugenics, Ezra Heywood, Family planning, Fania Mindell, Federation, First Red Scare, Food and Drug Administration, Frederick E. Crane, Free Exercise Clause, Free love, Free Speech League, Freedom of speech, Freedom of speech in the United States, Gonorrhea, Greenwich Village, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Griswold v. Connecticut, Guttmacher Institute, Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Harlem, Harper's Weekly, Healthy People program, History of abortion, History of condoms, Holland–Rantos, Human embryogenesis, Human overpopulation, Human rights, Implantation (human embryo), Industrial Workers of the World, Internal Revenue Service, International Conference on Population and Development, International Planned Parenthood Federation, Intrauterine device, James H. Hubert, James Michael Curley, John D. Rockefeller III, Josephus Daniels, Karl Pearson, Katharine Bement Davis, Katharine McCormick, Kitty Marion, Knights of Columbus, Lactational amenorrhea, Levonorgestrel, Linda Gordon, List of landmark court decisions in the United States, Lower East Side, Malthusian League, Marcus Garvey, Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, Mary Dennett, Medicaid, Medical school, Middletown studies, Mifepristone, Moses Harman, NAACP, National Birth Control League, National Catholic Welfare Council, National Urban League, New York Call, New York Court of Appeals, New-York Tribune, Newsreel, Non-governmental organization, Obscenity, Over-the-counter drug, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Patrick Joseph Hayes, Per curiam decision, Pessary, Planned Parenthood, Political radicalism, Pollution, Population Council, Pregnancy, Propaganda, Prostaglandin, Prostitution, Public health, Public Health Service Act, Quackery, Quality of life, Race (human categorization), Radical feminism, Radio industry, Reform movement, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Religious organization, Reproductive rights, Richard Lynn, Robert Dale Owen, Robert Latou Dickinson, Roe v. Wade, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, Rosenwald Fund, Safe sex, Sara M. Evans, Self-induced abortion, Sexual ethics, Sexual intercourse, Sexually transmitted infection, Shortage, Silent film, Social hygiene movement, Social purity movement, Spermicide, State government, Suffragette, Supreme Court of the United States, Syphilis, Syracuse, New York, The New York Times, The Town Hall (New York City), Thomas Robert Malthus, Timeline of reproductive rights legislation, Title X, Total fertility rate, Ulipristal acetate, Unintended pregnancy, United States Department of Health and Human Services, United States Postal Inspection Service, United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries, Upper class, Uterus, Van Kleeck Allison, Vending machine, Vice, Victorian era, Victorian morality, Voluntary Parenthood League, W. E. B. Du Bois, War on Poverty, Wendy Beetlestone, William J. Robinson, Women's rights, Working class, World Conference on Women, 1995, World War I, World War II, Yuzpe regimen, Zubik v. Burwell, 1912 Lawrence textile strike. Expand index (151 more) »
Abortion
Abortion is the ending of pregnancy by removing an embryo or fetus before it can survive outside the uterus.
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Abraham Jacobi
Abraham Jacobi (6 May 1830 – 10 July 1919) was a German physician and pioneer of pediatrics, opening the first children's clinic in the United States.
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African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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African Americans and birth control
The history of African American women and their participation in the birth control movement reflects a very conflicted set of ideals regarding African American women, the use of contraceptive practices and abortion.
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Aletta Jacobs
Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs (9 February 1854 – 10 August 1929) was a Dutch physician and women's suffrage activist.
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American Birth Control League
The American Birth Control League (ABCL) was founded by Margaret Sanger in 1921 at the First American Birth Control Conference in New York City.
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American Medical Association
The American Medical Association (AMA), founded in 1847 and incorporated in 1897, is the largest association of physicians—both MDs and DOs—and medical students in the United States.
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Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, academic, and author.
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Annie Besant
Annie Besant, née Wood (1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self-rule.
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Anthony Comstock
Anthony Comstock (March 7, 1844 – September 21, 1915) was a United States Postal Inspector and politician dedicated to ideas of Victorian morality.
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Anti-abortion movements
Anti-abortion movements, also referred to as pro-life movements, are involved in the abortion debate advocating against the practice of abortion and its legality.
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Augustus Noble Hand
Augustus Noble Hand (July 26, 1869 – October 28, 1954) was an American judge who served on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and later on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.
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Beginning of pregnancy controversy
Controversy over the beginning of pregnancy occurs in different contexts, particularly as it is discussed within the abortion debate in the United States.
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Ben Reitman
Ben Lewis Reitman (1879–1943) was an American anarchist and physician to the poor ("the hobo doctor").
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Bill Baird (activist)
Bill Baird (born June 20, 1932) is a reproductive rights pioneer, called by some media the "father" of the birth control and abortion-rights movement.
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Billy Sunday
William Ashley Sunday (November 19, 1862 – November 6, 1935) was an American athlete who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century.
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Birth control
Birth control, also known as contraception and fertility control, is a method or device used to prevent pregnancy.
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Birth Control (film)
Birth Control (also known as The New World) is a lost 1917 American documentary film produced by and starring Margaret Sanger and describing her family planning work.
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Birth Control Council of America
The Birth Control Council of America (BCCA) was a short-lived organization that was established 1937 to reconcile the activities of the American Birth Control League (ABCL) and the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (BCCRB).
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Birth control in the United States
Birth control in the United States is a complicated issue with a long history.
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Birth Control Review
Birth Control Review was a lay magazine established and edited by Margaret Sanger in 1917, three years after her friend, Otto Bobsein, coined the term "birth control" to describe voluntary motherhood or the ability of a woman to space children "in keeping with a family's financial and health resources.". Sanger published the first issue while imprisoned with Ethel Byrne, her sister, and Fannie Mindell for giving contraceptives and instruction to poor women at the Brownsville Clinic in New York.
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Blacklisting
Blacklisting is the action of a group or authority, compiling a blacklist (or black list) of people, countries or other entities to be avoided or distrusted as not being acceptable to those making the list.
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Blanche Ames Ames
Blanche Ames Ames (February 18, 1878 – March 2, 1969) was an American artist, political activist, inventor, writer, and prominent supporter of women's suffrage and birth control.
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Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby,, is a landmark decision in United States corporate law by the United States Supreme Court allowing closely held for-profit corporations to be exempt from a regulation its owners religiously object to, if there is a less restrictive means of furthering the law's interest, according to the provisions of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).
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Calendar-based contraceptive methods
Calendar-based methods are various methods of estimating a woman's likelihood of fertility, based on a record of the length of previous menstrual cycles.
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Carole McCann
Carole McCann is a professor in Gender and Women's Studies and American Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
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Catholic Church in the United States
The Catholic Church in the United States is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the Pope in Rome.
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Cervical cap
The cervical cap is a form of barrier contraception.
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Charles Bradlaugh
Charles Bradlaugh (26 September 1833 – 30 January 1891) was an English political activist and atheist.
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Charles Davenport
Charles Benedict Davenport (June 1, 1866 – February 18, 1944) was a prominent American eugenicist and biologist.
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Charles Knowlton
Charles Knowlton (May 10, 1800 – February 20, 1850) was an American physician, atheist, and writer.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Clarence Darrow
Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer, a leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and a prominent advocate for Georgist economic reform.
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Clelia Duel Mosher
Clelia Duel Mosher (KLEEL-ya DUE-el MOE-sher; December 16, 1863 – December 21, 1940) was a physician, hygienist and women's health advocate who disapproved of Victorian stereotypes about the physical incapacities of women.
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Clinic
A clinic (or outpatient clinic or ambulatory care clinic) is a healthcare facility that is primarily focused on the care of outpatients.
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Clinical Research Bureau
The Clinical Research Bureau was the first permanent birth control clinic in the United States.
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Coitus interruptus
Coitus interruptus, also known as the rejected sexual intercourse, withdrawal or pull-out method, is a method of birth control in which a man, during sexual intercourse, withdraws his penis from a woman's vagina prior to orgasm (and ejaculation) and then directs his ejaculate (semen) away from the vagina in an effort to avoid insemination.
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Combined oral contraceptive pill
The combined oral contraceptive pill (COCP), often referred to as the birth control pill or colloquially as "the pill", is a type of birth control that is designed to be taken orally by women.
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Comstock laws
The Comstock Laws were a set of federal acts passed by the United States Congress under the Grant administration along with related state laws.
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Condom
A condom is a sheath-shaped barrier device, used during sexual intercourse to reduce the probability of pregnancy or a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
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Contraceptive mandate
A contraceptive mandate is a government regulation or law that requires health insurers, or employers that provide their employees with health insurance, to cover some contraceptive costs in their health insurance plans.
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Contraceptive sponge
The contraceptive sponge combines barrier and spermicidal methods to prevent conception.
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Corporation
A corporation is a company or group of people or an organisation authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.
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Curriculum
In education, a curriculum (plural: curricula or curriculums) is broadly defined as the totality of student experiences that occur in the educational process.
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D. M. Bennett
DeRobigne Mortimer Bennett (December 23, 1818 – December 6, 1882), best known as D. M. Bennett was the founder and publisher of Truth Seeker, a radical freethought and reform American periodical.
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Danco Laboratories
Danco Laboratories is a pharmaceutical distributor located in midtown Manhattan which distributes the abortifacent drug mifepristone under the brand name Mifeprex.
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David M. Kennedy (historian)
David Michael Kennedy (born July 22, 1941 in Seattle, Washington) is an American historian specializing in American history.
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Demographic history of the United States
This article is about the demographic history of the United States.
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Diaphragm (birth control)
The diaphragm is a barrier method of birth control.
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Douche
A douche is a device used to introduce a stream of water into the body for medical or hygienic reasons, or the stream of water itself.
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Eisenstadt v. Baird
Eisenstadt v. Baird,, is a United States Supreme Court case that established the right of unmarried people to possess contraception on the same basis as married couples.
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Emergency contraception
Emergency contraception (EC), or emergency postcoital contraception, are birth control measures that may be used after sexual intercourse to prevent pregnancy.
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman (1869May 14, 1940) was an anarchist political activist and writer.
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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a federal agency that administers and enforces civil rights laws against workplace discrimination.
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Ethel Byrne
Ethel Higgins Byrne (died 1955) was an American progressive era radical feminist.
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Eugenics
Eugenics (from Greek εὐγενής eugenes 'well-born' from εὖ eu, 'good, well' and γένος genos, 'race, stock, kin') is a set of beliefs and practices that aims at improving the genetic quality of a human population.
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Ezra Heywood
Ezra Hervey Heywood (September 29, 1829 – May 22, 1893) was an American individualist anarchist, slavery abolitionist, and advocate of equal rights for women.
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Family planning
Family planning services are defined as "educational, comprehensive medical or social activities which enable individuals, including minors, to determine freely the number and spacing of their children and to select the means by which this may be achieved".
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Fania Mindell
Fania Esiah Mindell (December 15, 1894July 18, 1969) was an American feminist, activist, and theater artist.
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Federation
A federation (also known as a federal state) is a political entity characterized by a union of partially self-governing provinces, states, or other regions under a central (federal) government.
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First Red Scare
The First Red Scare was a period during the early 20th-century history of the United States marked by a widespread fear of Bolshevism and anarchism, due to real and imagined events; real events included those such as the Russian Revolution and anarchist bombings.
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Food and Drug Administration
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is a federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments.
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Frederick E. Crane
Frederick Evan Crane (March 2, 1869, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York – November 21, 1947, Garden City, Nassau County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
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Free Exercise Clause
The Free Exercise Clause accompanies the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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Free love
Free love is a social movement that accepts all forms of love.
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Free Speech League
The Free Speech League was a progressive organization in the United States, in the first two decades of the twentieth century, that fought to support freedom of speech in the early years of the twentieth century.
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Freedom of speech
Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or sanction.
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Freedom of speech in the United States
In the United States, freedom of speech and expression is strongly protected from government restrictions by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, many state constitutions, and state and federal laws.
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Gonorrhea
Gonorrhea, also spelled gonorrhoea, is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
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Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village often referred to by locals as simply "the Village", is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan, New York City.
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Gregory Goodwin Pincus
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Griswold v. Connecticut
Griswold v. Connecticut,, is a landmark case in the United States about access to contraception.
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Guttmacher Institute
The Guttmacher Institute is a research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in the United States and globally.
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Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Hand That Rocks the Cradle is an American silent film released in 1917.
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Harlem
Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
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Harper's Weekly
Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City.
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Healthy People program
Healthy People is a program of a nationwide health-promotion and disease-prevention goals set by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
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History of abortion
The practice of abortion—the termination of a pregnancy—has been known since ancient times.
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History of condoms
The history of condoms goes back at least several centuries, and perhaps beyond.
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Holland–Rantos
Holland–Rantos was a company that manufactured contraceptives.
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Human embryogenesis
Human embryogenesis is the process of cell division and cellular differentiation of the embryo that occurs during the early stages of development.
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Human overpopulation
Human overpopulation (or population overshoot) occurs when the ecological footprint of a human population in a specific geographical location exceeds the carrying capacity of the place occupied by that group.
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Human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, December 13, 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,, Retrieved August 14, 2014 that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and international law.
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Implantation (human embryo)
In humans, implantation is the stage of pregnancy at which the already fertilized egg adheres to the wall of the uterus.
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Industrial Workers of the World
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), members of which are commonly termed "Wobblies", is an international labor union that was founded in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois in the United States of America.
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Internal Revenue Service
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service of the United States federal government.
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International Conference on Population and Development
The United Nations coordinated an International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Egypt, on 5–13 September 1994.
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International Planned Parenthood Federation
The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is a global non-governmental organisation with the broad aims of promoting sexual and reproductive health, and advocating the right of individuals to make their own choices in family planning.
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Intrauterine device
An intrauterine device (IUD), also known as intrauterine contraceptive device (IUCD or ICD) or coil, is a small, often T-shaped birth control device that is inserted into a woman's uterus to prevent pregnancy.
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James H. Hubert
James H. Hubert was a social worker and the Executive Secretary of the New York Urban League.
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James Michael Curley
James Michael Curley (November 20, 1874 – November 12, 1958) was an American Democratic Party politician from Boston, Massachusetts.
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John D. Rockefeller III
John Davison Rockefeller III (March 21, 1906 – July 10, 1978) was a philanthropist and third-generation member of the prominent Rockefeller family.
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Josephus Daniels
Josephus Daniels (May 18, 1862 – January 15, 1948) was a progressive Democrat, and newspaper editor and publisher from North Carolina who became active in politics.
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Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson HFRSE LLD (originally named Carl; 27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was an English mathematician and biostatistician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. He founded the world's first university statistics department at University College London in 1911, and contributed significantly to the field of biometrics, meteorology, theories of social Darwinism and eugenics. Pearson was also a protégé and biographer of Sir Francis Galton.
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Katharine Bement Davis
Katharine Bement Davis (January 15, 1860 – December 10, 1935) was an American progressive era social reformer and criminologist who became the first woman to head a major New York City agency when she was appointed Correction Commissioner on January 1, 1914.
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Katharine McCormick
Katharine Dexter McCormick (August 27, 1875 – December 28, 1967) was a U.S. biologist, suffragist, philanthropist and, after her husband's death, heir to a substantial part of the McCormick family fortune.
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Kitty Marion
Kitty Marion (12 March 1871 – 9 October 1944) was a German-born actress and political activist.
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Knights of Columbus
The Knights of Columbus is the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization.
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Lactational amenorrhea
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Levonorgestrel
Levonorgestrel is a hormonal medication which is used in a number of birth control methods.
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Linda Gordon
Linda Gordon is an American feminist and historian.
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List of landmark court decisions in the United States
The following is a partial list of landmark court decisions in the United States.
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Lower East Side
The Lower East Side, sometimes abbreviated as LES, is a neighborhood in the southeastern part of the New York City borough of Manhattan, roughly located between the Bowery and the East River, and Canal Street and Houston Street.
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Malthusian League
The Malthusian League was a British organisation which advocated the practice of contraception and the education of the public about the importance of family planning.
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Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH (17 August 188710 June 1940) was a proponent of Black nationalism in the United States and most importantly Jamaica.
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Margaret Sanger
Margaret Higgins Sanger (born Margaret Louise Higgins, September 14, 1879September 6, 1966, also known as Margaret Sanger Slee) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse.
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Marie Stopes
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (15 October 1880 – 2 October 1958) was a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights.
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Mary Dennett
Mary Coffin Ware Dennett (April 4, 1872 – July 25, 1947) was an American women's rights activist, pacifist, homeopathic advocate, and pioneer in the areas of birth control, sex education, and women's suffrage.
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Medicaid
Medicaid in the United States is a joint federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with limited income and resources.
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Medical school
A medical school is a tertiary educational institution —or part of such an institution— that teaches medicine, and awards a professional degree for physicians and surgeons.
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Middletown studies
Middletown studies were sociological case studies of the white residents of City of Muncie in Indiana conducted by Robert Staughton Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd, husband-and-wife sociologists.
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Mifepristone
Mifepristone, also known as RU-486, is a medication typically used in combination with misoprostol, to bring about an abortion.
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Moses Harman
Moses Harman (October 12, 1830January 30, 1910) was an American schoolteacher and publisher notable for his staunch support for women's rights.
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NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by a group, including, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.
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National Birth Control League
The National Birth Control League was a United States organization founded in the early 20th century to promote the education and use of birth control.
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National Catholic Welfare Council
The National Catholic Welfare Council (NCWC) was the annual meeting of the American Catholic hierarchy and its standing secretariat; it was established in 1919 as the successor to the emergency organization, the National Catholic War Council.
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National Urban League
The National Urban League (NUL), formerly known as the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, is a nonpartisan civil rights organization based in New York City that advocates on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination in the United States.
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New York Call
The New York Call was a socialist daily newspaper published in New York City from 1908 through 1923.
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New York Court of Appeals
The New York Court of Appeals is the highest court in the U.S. state of New York.
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New-York Tribune
The New-York Tribune was an American newspaper, first established in 1841 by editor Horace Greeley (1811–1872).
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Newsreel
A newsreel is a form of short documentary film, containing news stories and items of topical interest, that was prevalent between the 1910s and the late 1960s.
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Non-governmental organization
Non-governmental organizations, nongovernmental organizations, or nongovernment organizations, commonly referred to as NGOs, are usually non-profit and sometimes international organizations independent of governments and international governmental organizations (though often funded by governments) that are active in humanitarian, educational, health care, public policy, social, human rights, environmental, and other areas to effect changes according to their objectives.
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Obscenity
An obscenity is any utterance or act that strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time.
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Over-the-counter drug
Over-the-counter (OTC) drugs are medicines sold directly to a consumer without a prescription from a healthcare professional, as opposed to prescription drugs, which may be sold only to consumers possessing a valid prescription.
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Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often shortened to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) or nicknamed Obamacare, is a United States federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010.
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Patrick Joseph Hayes
Patrick Joseph Hayes (November 20, 1867 – September 4, 1938) was an American Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Per curiam decision
In law, a per curiam decision (or opinion) is a ruling issued by an appellate court of multiple judges in which the decision rendered is made by the court (or at least, a majority of the court) acting collectively (and typically, though not necessarily, unanimously).
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Pessary
A pessary is a prosthetic device inserted into the vagina to reduce the protrusion of pelvic structures into the vagina.
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Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA), or Planned Parenthood, is a nonprofit organization that provides reproductive health care in the United States and globally.
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Political radicalism
The term political radicalism (in political science known as radicalism) denotes political principles focused on altering social structures through revolutionary or other means and changing value systems in fundamental ways.
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Pollution
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.
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Population Council
The Population Council is an international, nonprofit, non-governmental organization.
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Pregnancy
Pregnancy, also known as gestation, is the time during which one or more offspring develops inside a woman.
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Propaganda
Propaganda is information that is not objective and is used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is presented.
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Prostaglandin
The prostaglandins (PG) are a group of physiologically active lipid compounds having diverse hormone-like effects in animals.
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Prostitution
Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.
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Public health
Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting human health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals".
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Public Health Service Act
The Public Health Service Act is a United States federal law enacted in 1944.
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Quackery
Quackery or health fraud is the promotion of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices.
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Quality of life
Quality of life (QOL) is the general well-being of individuals and societies, outlining negative and positive features of life.
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Race (human categorization)
A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society.
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Radical feminism
Radical feminism is a perspective within feminism that calls for a radical reordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic contexts.
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Radio industry
The "radio industry" is a generic term for any companies or public service providers who are involved with the broadcast of radio stations or ancillary services.
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Reform movement
A reform movement is a type of social movement that aims to bring a social or political system closer to the community's ideal.
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Religious Freedom Restoration Act
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, Pub.
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Religious organization
Religious activities generally need some infrastructure to be conducted.
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Reproductive rights
Reproductive rights are legal rights and freedoms relating to reproduction and reproductive health that vary amongst countries around the world.
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Richard Lynn
Richard Lynn (born 20 February 1930) is an English psychologist and author.
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Robert Dale Owen
Robert Dale Owen (November 7, 1801 – June 24, 1877) was a Scottish-born social reformer who immigrated to the United States in 1825, became a U.S. citizen, and was active in Indiana politics as member of the Democratic Party in the Indiana House of Representatives (1835–39 and 1851–53) and represented Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives (1843–47).
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Robert Latou Dickinson
Robert Latou Dickinson (1861-1950) was an American obstetrician and gynecologist, surgeon, maternal health educator, artist, sculptor and medical illustrator, and research scientist.
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Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), is a landmark decision issued in 1973 by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of the constitutionality of laws that criminalized or restricted access to abortions.
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York is a Latin Catholic archdiocese in New York State.
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Rosenwald Fund
The Rosenwald Fund (also known as the Rosenwald Foundation, the Julius Rosenwald Fund, and the Julius Rosenwald Foundation) was established in 1917 by Julius Rosenwald and his family for "the well-being of mankind." Rosenwald became part-owner of Sears, Roebuck and Company in 1895, serving as its president from 1908 to 1922, and chairman of its Board of Directors until his death in 1932.
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Safe sex
Safe sex is sexual activity engaged in by people who have taken precautions to protect themselves against sexually transmitted infections (STIs) such as HIV.
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Sara M. Evans
Sara M. Evans (born 1943) is a Regents Professor Emeritus in the history department at the University of Minnesota.
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Self-induced abortion
A self-induced abortion (or self-induced miscarriage) is an abortion performed by the pregnant woman herself or with the help of other, non-medical assistance.
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Sexual ethics
Sexual ethics or sex ethics (also called sexual morality) is the study of human sexuality and the expression of human sexual behavior.
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Sexual intercourse
Sexual intercourse (or coitus or copulation) is principally the insertion and thrusting of the penis, usually when erect, into the vagina for sexual pleasure, reproduction, or both.
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Sexually transmitted infection
Sexually transmitted infections (STI), also referred to as sexually transmitted diseases (STD) or venereal diseases (VD), are infections that are commonly spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex and oral sex.
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Shortage
In economics, a shortage or excess demand is a situation in which the demand for a product or service exceeds its supply in a market.
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Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no spoken dialogue).
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Social hygiene movement
The social hygiene movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was an attempt by Progressive-era reformers to control venereal disease, regulate prostitution and vice, and disseminate sexual education through the use of scientific research methods and modern media techniques.
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Social purity movement
The social purity movement was a late 19th-century social movement that sought to abolish prostitution and other sexual activities that were considered immoral according to Christian morality.
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Spermicide
Spermicide is a contraceptive substance that destroys sperm, inserted vaginally prior to intercourse to prevent pregnancy.
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State government
A state government is the government of a country subdivision in a federal form of government, which shares political power with the federal or national government.
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Suffragette
Suffragettes were members of women's organisations in the late-19th and early-20th centuries who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for women's suffrage, the right to vote in public elections.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.
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Syphilis
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum.
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Syracuse, New York
Syracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, in the United States.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Town Hall (New York City)
The Town Hall is a performance space, located at 123 West 43rd Street, between Sixth Avenue and Broadway, in midtown Manhattan New York City.
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Thomas Robert Malthus
Thomas Robert Malthus (13 February 1766 – 23 December 1834) was an English cleric and scholar, influential in the fields of political economy and demography.
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Timeline of reproductive rights legislation
Timeline of reproductive rights legislation, a chronological list of laws and legal decisions affecting human reproductive rights.
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Title X
The Title X Family Planning Program, officially known as Public Law 91-572 or “Population Research and Voluntary Family Planning Programs”, was enacted under President Richard Nixon in 1970 as part of the Public Health Service Act.
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Total fertility rate
The total fertility rate (TFR), sometimes also called the fertility rate, absolute/potential natality, period total fertility rate (PTFR), or total period fertility rate (TPFR) of a population is the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if.
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Ulipristal acetate
Ulipristal acetate, sold under the brand name Ella among others, is a medication used for emergency birth control and uterine fibroids.
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Unintended pregnancy
Unintended pregnancies are pregnancies that are mistimed, unplanned or unwanted at the time of conception.
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United States Department of Health and Human Services
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), also known as the Health Department, is a cabinet-level department of the U.S. federal government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services.
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United States Postal Inspection Service
The United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) is the law enforcement arm of the United States Postal Service.
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United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries
United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries, 86 F.2d 737 (2d Cir. 1936) (often just U.S. v. One Package), was an in rem United States Court of Appeals case in the Second Circuit involving birth control.
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Upper class
The upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status, and usuall are also the wealthiest members of society, and also wield the greatest political power.
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Uterus
The uterus (from Latin "uterus", plural uteri) or womb is a major female hormone-responsive secondary sex organ of the reproductive system in humans and most other mammals.
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Van Kleeck Allison
Van Kleek Allison (born ca. 1894, date of death unknown) was a birth control activist who worked in the birth control movement in the United States.
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Vending machine
A vending machine is an automated machine that provides items such as snacks, beverages, cigarettes and lottery tickets to consumers after money, a credit card, or specially designed card is inserted into the machine.
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Vice
Vice is a practice, behaviour, or habit generally considered immoral, sinful, criminal, rude, taboo, depraved, or degrading in the associated society.
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Victorian era
In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
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Victorian morality
Victorian morality is a distillation of the moral views of people living during the time of Queen Victoria's reign (1837–1901), the Victorian era, and of the moral climate of Great Britain in the mid-19th century in general.
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Voluntary Parenthood League
The Voluntary Parenthood League (VPL) was an organization that advocated for contraception during the birth control movement in the United States.
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W. E. B. Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt "W.
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War on Poverty
The War on Poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on Wednesday, January 8, 1964.
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Wendy Beetlestone
Wendy Beetlestone (born April 4, 1961) is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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William J. Robinson
William Josephus Robinson (December 8, 1867 – January 6, 1936) was an American physician, sexologist and birth control advocate.
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Women's rights
Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide, and formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the nineteenth century and feminist movement during the 20th century.
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Working class
The working class (also labouring class) are the people employed for wages, especially in manual-labour occupations and industrial work.
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World Conference on Women, 1995
The Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace was the name given for a conference convened by the United Nations during 4–15 September 1995 in Beijing, China.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Yuzpe regimen
The Yuzpe regimen is a method of emergency contraception that uses a combination of ethinyl estradiol and levonorgestrel.
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Zubik v. Burwell
Zubik v. Burwell was a case before the United States Supreme Court on whether religious institutions other than churches should be exempt from the contraceptive mandate, a regulation adopted by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that requires non-church employers to cover certain contraceptives for their female employees.
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1912 Lawrence textile strike
The Lawrence textile strike was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_control_movement_in_the_United_States
