The Progressive Era

For this discussion use both links below. One is to PBS and their production, The Pill, while the other is for a webpage providing you with information on Margaret Sanger and her efforts. After viewing/reading the material at these two websites, please write a discussion post of 200-500 words that describes Margaret Sanger’s efforts on the issue of birth control. In your discussion post, please discuss . . . – How Victorian and American ideologies played into the passage of the Comstock Law and the fight over birth control. – Why was there so much resistance to the idea of birth control? Websites Margaret Sanger and the Pill (taken from Margaret Sanger Papers Project) The Influence of Anthony Comstock (Case Western Reserve University) The Comstock Law – Library of Congress