https://padlet.com/2026gundn78/gy3umx8jz0asbq9p Made with wonder en-us 2022-04-04 16:55:48 UTC 2026-03-12 00:59:04 UTC hello@padlet.com 2026gundn78 https://padlet.com/2026gundn78/gy3umx8jz0asbq9p/wish/2129070550 Margaret Sanger, a nurse, coined the term “birth control” and dedicated herself to educating women. Sanger began publishing a monthly newsletter called "The Woman Rebel" in 1914 which taught women about birth control. 
She was arrested repeatedly for violating the 1873 Comstock Act, which made it a Federal offense to send contraceptive devices or information about birth control in the mail.]]> 2022-04-04 16:56:30 UTC https://padlet.com/2026gundn78/gy3umx8jz0asbq9p/wish/2129070550 2026gundn78 https://padlet.com/2026gundn78/gy3umx8jz0asbq9p/wish/2131102229 In Roe v. Wade, plaintiff Norma McCorvey (who filed her case under the alias Jane Roe because she feared the lawsuit would bring unwanted notoriety and invade her personal privacy) claimed that due to financial constraints, a Texas abortion law forced her to decide between bearing an unwanted child and seeking an abortion by unqualified doctors.
the Supreme Court declared that a woman’s right to abortion falls under the constitutional guarantee of privacy, but "this right is not unqualified." The state "in promoting its interest in the potentiality of human life" can regulate abortion after the first trimester of a woman’s pregnancy.]]> 2022-04-05 17:08:33 UTC https://padlet.com/2026gundn78/gy3umx8jz0asbq9p/wish/2131102229 2026gundn78 https://padlet.com/2026gundn78/gy3umx8jz0asbq9p/wish/2132594864 In this photograph, women embark on the “Relay for ERA” from Seneca Falls, New York (the site of the first women’s rights convention), to Houston, Texas (the site of the National Women’s Conference). More than 130,000 people—including former First Ladies Lady Bird Johnson and Betty Ford, First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Coretta Scott King, and Susan B. Anthony’s niece—attended the First National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas.
The conference adopted resolutions furthering reproductive freedom and equality for gay women,]]> 2022-04-06 13:13:03 UTC https://padlet.com/2026gundn78/gy3umx8jz0asbq9p/wish/2132594864 2026gundn78 https://padlet.com/2026gundn78/gy3umx8jz0asbq9p/wish/2133014746 The National Organization for Women was formed on June 30, 1966, during the Third National Conference of Commissions on the Status of Women in Washington, D.C. NOW was incorporated in 1967, and local chapters were formed; by 1975 there were over 600 chapters. As membership increased, the organization addressed the Equal Rights Amendment, child care, abortion rights, sexual harassment, women in government, women and religion, and violence against women.]]> 2022-04-06 16:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/2026gundn78/gy3umx8jz0asbq9p/wish/2133014746 2026gundn78 https://padlet.com/2026gundn78/gy3umx8jz0asbq9p/wish/2133046738 The changes from these tactics in the women's movement were mixed. They succeed in abortions and birth control nationwide, and spread awareness for women's rights, but were unsuccessful in passing the equal rights amendment ]]> 2022-04-06 17:01:18 UTC https://padlet.com/2026gundn78/gy3umx8jz0asbq9p/wish/2133046738 2026gundn78 https://padlet.com/2026gundn78/gy3umx8jz0asbq9p/wish/2133065869 Gloria Steinem founded the National Women’s Political Caucus in July 1971. One of the things they worked on is the Equal Rights Amendment. the Equal Rights Amendment stated,  “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” The amendment failed to be ratified. ]]> 2022-04-06 17:11:48 UTC https://padlet.com/2026gundn78/gy3umx8jz0asbq9p/wish/2133065869 2026gundn78 https://padlet.com/2026gundn78/gy3umx8jz0asbq9p/wish/2133671201 Estelle Griswold was convicted as accessories to the crime of providing married couples information about contraception and in some cases writing prescriptions for contraceptive devices for the woman.At the time of their arrests (1961), Connecticut law made it a crime for any person to use a device or drug to prevent conception, and it was also a crime for any person to assist, cause, or command another to do the same.
The Supreme Court ruled that Connecticut’s birth control law was unconstitutional based on rights set down in the Fourth and Fifth amendments that protect an individual’s home and private life from interference by the government.
this means that citizens in the state of Connecticut could use birth control within the bonds of marriage.]]> 2022-04-07 01:04:36 UTC https://padlet.com/2026gundn78/gy3umx8jz0asbq9p/wish/2133671201