Birth control
(Book)

section I. Historical overview -- 1. Types of birth control and their controversies -- Natural birth control methods -- Early artificial birth control methods -- Intrauterine devices -- Hormonal-based contraceptives -- Long-acting hormone=based contraceptives -- "Emergency" contraceptives -- Recent innovation and marketing -- Sterilization -- 2. History of birth control : from the American Revolution to World War II -- Republican motherhood -- Social Science reform -- Temperance and purity movements -- Comstock and contraception -- The Progressive Era -- Sanger, science and radicalism -- The Town Hall Raid -- The Sanger effect -- Aftermath: before World War II -- 3. Birth control since 1945 -- Contraceptive research and development -- Population control and Federal policy -- From legalization to public funding -- Humanae Vitae -- Abortion versus birth control -- Funding and culture wars --

section II. Contemporary controversies and issues relating to birth -- 4. Consumer protection -- Original promise for women's health -- Birth control and cancer risk -- Incomplete disclosure -- Target markets -- 5. Government policy -- Government funding and objectivity -- "Civil rights" or "public health" -- "Family planning" or eugenics -- Long-acting contraceptives and voluntariness -- Voluntariness: doctors and the "conscience clause" -- Other factors: foreign aid, environmentalism, and youth -- 6. Social impact of birth control -- Birth control and feminism -- Lack of male contraceptives -- Recent innovations in male contraception -- Environmentalism and birth control -- Feminism and marketing -- Youth appropriateness and advertising -- Birth control and sex education -- Abstinence-only sec education: no birth control -- Birth control access and youth rights -- Pluralism and modern society --

section III. Primary documents

A. Early motivations for birth control : part I : science or pornography?

Excerpt from Fruits of Philosophy

Excerpt from The Book of Nature

B. Early opposition to birth control : moral temperance or public interference?

Comstock Law of 1873

Excerpt from Frauds Exposed

C. Early motivations for birth control : part II : feminism, radicalism, or public health?

Margaret Sanger's The Woman Rebel

Excerpt from Family Limitation

Excerpts from What Every Girl Should Know

Excerpt from the Sanger-Russell debate on birth control

D. Supreme Court cases : from public health to civil rights

Excerpt from Buck v. Bell

Excerpt from United States v. One Package

Excerpt from Griswold v. Connecticut

E. Religious reactions : free choice or intrinsic evil?

Excerpt from Humanae Vitae

F. Birth control as a political issue : is abortion a form of birth control?

Hyde Amendment

Reagan's Mexico City policy

President William Clinton's Mexico City policy

President George W. Bush's policy

President Barack Obama's policy

Timeline for birth control issues.