As Gloria Steinem pointed out in a 1998 essay for TIME, Sanger’s embrace of the eugenics rhetoric may have been less a ...

This work tells the story of a group of reformers dedicated to making contraception legal, accessible, and acceptable. It details how Margaret Sanger's campaign beginning in 1914 to challenge anti ...

On May 9, 1960, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first commercially-made birth control pill. This early form of the hormone drug was widely marketed as a solution to unwanted pregnancy.

Could the right to birth control be decided by next week’s election? We’re not trying to scare you, but the answer is yes. This is one reason why women are expected to turn out to the polls in record ...