Chapter 10: Reproductive Rightsin the United States

A Student’s Guide to Essential Primary Sources
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Chapter 10 Reproductive Rightsin the United States
Margaret Sanger Advocates for BirthControl
Right to Contraception
Access to Abortion Becomes aFlashpoint
The End of the Roe Era
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Abstract

The history of women’s reproductive rights in America is long and twisted, with many different branches and roots. The modern struggle,however, seems to have begun with the passage of the Comstock Act in 1873. Anthony Comstock (1844–1915) was a U.S. postal inspector in New York, a fervent and activist Christian—some would call him a fanatic—and one of the leaders of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.

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