section I. Historical overview
1. Types of birth control and their controversies
Natural birth control methods
Early artificial birth control methods
Intrauterine devices
Hormonal-based contraceptives
Long-acting hormone=based contraceptives
"Emergency" contraceptives
Recent innovation and marketing
Sterilization
2. History of birth control : from the American Revolution to World War II
Republican motherhood
Social Science reform
Temperance and purity movements
Comstock and contraception
The Progressive Era
Sanger, science and radicalism
The Town Hall Raid
The Sanger effect
Aftermath: before World War II
3. Birth control since 1945
Contraceptive research and development
Population control and Federal policy
From legalization to public funding
Humanae Vitae
Abortion versus birth control
Funding and culture wars
section II. Contemporary controversies and issues relating to birth
4. Consumer protection
Original promise for women's health
Birth control and cancer risk
Incomplete disclosure
Target markets
5. Government policy
Government funding and objectivity
"Civil rights" or "public health"
"Family planning" or eugenics
Long-acting contraceptives and voluntariness
Voluntariness: doctors and the "conscience clause"
Other factors: foreign aid, environmentalism, and youth
6. Social impact of birth control
Birth control and feminism
Lack of male contraceptives
Recent innovations in male contraception
Environmentalism and birth control
Feminism and marketing
Youth appropriateness and advertising
Birth control and sex education
Abstinence-only sec education: no birth control
Birth control access and youth rights
Pluralism and modern society
section III. Primary documents
A. Early motivations for birth control : part I : science or pornography?
Excerpt from Fruits of Philosophy
Excerpt from The Book of Nature
B. Early opposition to birth control : moral temperance or public interference?
Comstock Law of 1873
Excerpt from Frauds Exposed
C. Early motivations for birth control : part II : feminism, radicalism, or public health?
Margaret Sanger's The Woman Rebel
Excerpt from Family Limitation
Excerpts from What Every Girl Should Know
Excerpt from the Sanger-Russell debate on birth control
D. Supreme Court cases : from public health to civil rights
Excerpt from Buck v. Bell
Excerpt from United States v. One Package
Excerpt from Griswold v. Connecticut
E. Religious reactions : free choice or intrinsic evil?
Excerpt from Humanae Vitae
F. Birth control as a political issue : is abortion a form of birth control?
Hyde Amendment
Reagan's Mexico City policy
President William Clinton's Mexico City policy
President George W. Bush's policy
President Barack Obama's policy
Timeline for birth control issues.