Of abortion. Were going to start nationally and look at california specifically on the topics of specialized and go back through the National Context to look at roe v. Wade and some that has happened since then in more recent years. We did have a very brief introduction to the topic of abortion in the colonial period. We talked about sarah and her abortion in the 1740s, so we had have a very brief introduction to it. But today were actually going to pick up around the time of the comstock can someone remind us what the com stock app does . Information on planned parenthood. Yeah, so no advertising of contraceptives and especially the dissemination of stuff in the mail. The act made it criminal toadsvertise these things beginning in 1873. We showed you guys the political cartoon if you recall. The caption was she gave birth to a naked baby, you know, so the joke or punch line is that comstock was really prude. Its important to know he doesnt approve all methods of Birth Control. He does
More than 60 years ago, America was confronted with the story of a young woman forced to seek an abortion abroad after unwittingly taking a drug that caused severe birth defects.
60 years ago an Arizona mother of four, who faced giving birth to a child with a congenital disorder after having taken thalidomide, traveled to Sweden for an abortion. Today she says the end of Roe is awakening "a great dose of anger" among women.