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A Job Half Done
Overturning Roe was a historic victory, but ending Roe was only step one. Since Dobbs, abortion rates have actually increased—driven largely by unregulated, mail-order chemical abortion drugs that put women and preborn babies at severe risk.
Posted in Federal, Sanctity of Life
Tagged Abortion, abortion drug, Comstock Act, Dobbs, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Center, mifepristone, Planned Parenthood, Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy, Roe v. Wade
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Margaret Sanger and the Racist Roots of Planned Parenthood
Margaret Sanger, her sister, Ethel Byrne, and Fania Mindell opened the first birth control clinic in the United States in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York on October 16, 1916. The clinic was later raided by the NYPD, and all three women were arrested and charged with violating the Comstock Act for distributing obscene materials. After laws governing birth control were relaxed, Sanger founded the American Birth Control League in 1921, which was renamed the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1942.
Posted in Sanctity of Life
Tagged American Birth Control League, birth control, Cecile Richards, Charles Darwin, Comstock Act, Dan Forest, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Ethel Byrne, Fania Mindell, Hillary Clinton, Ku Klux Klan, Margaret Sanger, MLK Day, Planned Parenthood, Students for Life of America
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