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In 1963, she was appointed by the state governor to a Commission on Birth Control, which advised the state legislature on the issue of state-sponsored birth control for women receiving state aid. In the 1970s and 1980s, she was a board member of Rosary College (now Dominican University ), retiring as president in 1985.
Plan A, a free community clinic in Louise, Mississippi, that also runs a mobile clinic in the Mississippi Delta and a forthcoming clinic in Georgia, is able to provide all forms of birth control ...
As the birth control societies spread across Europe, so did birth control clinics. The first birth control clinic in the world was established in the Netherlands in 1882, run by the Netherlands' first female physician, Aletta Jacobs. [20] The first birth control clinic in England was established in 1921 by Marie Stopes, in London. [21]
[6] [8] Both males and females reported an increase in receiving instruction on saying no to sex, without being provided information about birth control. [5] [6] [8] The NSFG also documents large declines in formal instruction about birth control from 1995 to 2011-2013 falling from 87% to 60% of adolescent females and 81% to 55% of adolescent ...
The state's largest county public health department is now offering free emergency contraceptives, along with condoms and lubricants, to anyone who visits the agency at its Des Moines location.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is preparing to send a second shipment of family planning resources to more than 300 locations across the state through the Take Control ...
The state alleged that the religious organization violated the Constitution, federal anti-discrimination law, and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). [254] On 8 July 2020, in Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against that and in favor of Little Sisters of the Poor. [254] [255]
Ninety-nine years ago today, on October 16, 1916, Margaret Sanger opened the first family planning clinic in the United States. Sanger is credited with sparking the birth control movement, and ...