How An Anti-Vice Crusader Sabotaged The Early Birth Control Movement

The Comstock Act, which passed in 1873, virtually outlawed contraception. In The Man Who Hated Women, author Amy Sohn writes about the man behind the law — and the women prosecuted under it.

How An Anti-Vice Crusader Sabotaged The Early Birth Control Movement
The Man Who Hated Women by Amy Sohn

The Comstock Act, which passed in 1873, virtually outlawed contraception. In The Man Who Hated Women, author Amy Sohn writes about the man behind the law — and the women prosecuted under it.

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