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Planned Parenthood is the largest single provider of abortions in the U.S., [12] but pro-choice advocates have argued that the organization's family planning services reduce the need for abortions; in the words of Megan Crepeau of the Chicago Tribune, Planned Parenthood could be "characterized as America's largest abortion preventer".
Today, Planned Parenthood is the largest single provider of reproductive health services and the largest single provider of abortion in the United States. [17] Furthermore, Calderone worked as a liaison between Planned Parenthood and the public health establishment to advocate for the mainstream integration of birth control into American medicine.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 December 2024. American birth control activist and nurse (1879–1966) For the clinical psychologist and researcher, see Margaret Singer. Margaret Sanger Sanger in 1922 Born Margaret Louise Higgins (1879-09-14) September 14, 1879 Corning, New York, U.S. Died September 6, 1966 (1966-09-06) (aged 86 ...
The movement to legalize birth control came to a gradual conclusion around the time Planned Parenthood was formed. [144] In 1942, there were over 400 birth control organizations in America, contraception was fully embraced by the medical profession, and the anti-contraception Comstock laws (which still remained on the books) were rarely enforced.
Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, speaks on stage at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards where she receives an award in Manhattan, NY on November 9, 2015.
In 1939 the two were reconciled and merged to form the Birth Control Federation of America. [citation needed] In 1942 the name was changed to Planned Parenthood Federation of America. [1] Its headquarters were located at 104 Fifth Avenue, New York City from 1921–1930 and at various offices on Madison Avenue from 1931–1939.
The American Birth Control League was founded by Margaret Sanger in 1921; it would become Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1942. [76] [77] By the 1930s, licensed physicians performed an estimated 800,000 abortions a year. [78]
Planned Parenthood of Columbia/Willamette v. American Coalition of Life Activists, 290 F.3d 1058 (2002), [nb 1] was a freedom of speech case of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit over statements by anti-abortion activists who publicized personal information about specific abortion doctors, and indirectly suggested the possibility of violence against those individuals.