Contraceptives Back In The 1800s And Early 1900s

Back in the 1800’s and early 1900’s, there were limited contraceptions available to women. In this time period, pregnancy contraceptives were at a different stage compared to where they are nowadays. The forefront problem was that contraceptives were outlawed. Physicians could not give advice, hand out contraceptives, or discuss the contraceptives with you (Baughman). Similarly, you could not purchase contraceptives from a pharmacy (Baughman). The growth of the science of this generation created a life donator and saver, which was an answer to the prayers of poverty stricken factory women; these life savers were untouchable though to these helpless women. As a result of the ban of contraceptives, women were put on a straight path to unplanned
Led by Margaret Sanger, the birth control movement sought to overcome laws making it illegal to provide women with birth control devices and information about birth control (Progressivism). The birth control movement also aimed to make birth control widely available to women because women could not be liberated if they were trapped at home raising child after child (Progressivism). Sanger was personally involved in the act of being trapped because of children because her mother having had eleven children, Sanger had to dedicate part of herself to help raise her siblings and also take care of her mother for a while (The Pill). So, Sanger was an example of the constant pull that children had on families. The children effected the mothers and their families. The birth control movement was a movement that sought to help fix this ongoing problem of unwanted and uncontrollable pregnancies. Sanger with her experience as a nurse, female activist, and sex educator was the ideal women to lead the movement to ending unplanned pregnancies. In 1914, The Woman Rebel, an eight-page monthly newsletter promoting contraception, was launched by Margaret Sanger