“Arizona’s Birth Control Movement: Providing Contraceptives to Rural and Urban Women” with Mary Melcher

Chandler Downtown Library 22 S. Delaware St., Chandler, AZ, United States

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION Today, women’s ability to control their reproduction through use of contraception is taken for granted. But this is a fairly recent phenomenon. Birth control was illegal in the U.S. until 1936. Before birth control was legalized, a lively birth control movement developed in Arizona,initiated by Margaret Sanger and volunteers in Tucson and Phoenix. […]

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