Margaret Sanger

Though Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett shared a mission, they took very different approaches. Their rivalry was political, sometimes even personal.

What's next for Planned Parenthood?

Eleanor Roosevelt’s tacit support for a program that jailed sex workers suggests the limits of the elite-led reform efforts she championed.

One of the cases on which the judge relies said the opposite of what he claims it did.

Once considered a relic of moral panics past, the 1873 law criminalized sending "obscene, lewd or lascivious" materials through the mail.

Religious conservatives see “anti-eugenic” laws as the most promising path to establish a federal ban on abortion.

Efforts to roll back abortion and contraception access aim to control women’s sexuality.

The Biden administration’s proposed “child allowances” draw on the feminist thought of Crystal Eastman, who advocated “motherhood endowments” 100 years ago.

When professor Norman E. Himes published The Medical History of Contraception in 1936, he had made a tactical move, to legalize birth control.

When birth control was still taboo, early socialists fought to make it accessible to working-class women.

Medicine’s dark history helps explain why black mothers are dying at alarming rates.

A profile of Hannah Mayer Stone, one of the key figures in the struggle to make contraception safe, effective, and widely available.

The history of the comic-book superhero's creation seven decades ago has been hidden away — until now.

A reading list tracing the history of the birth control movement through novels.

Anthony Comstock’s crusade against vice constrained the lives of ordinary Americans. His antagonists opened up history for feminists and other activists.

As the U.S. anticipates a vaccinated summer, historians say measuring the impact of the 1918 influenza on the uproarious decade that followed is tricky.

From Amelia Earhart to Michelle Obama, meet 100 women who defined the last century.

Contrary to what Clarence Thomas recently claimed, eugenicists never favored abortion as a means of population control.

They really do not have anything to do with each other.

The justice used my book to tie abortion to eugenics. But his rendition of the history is incorrect.