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By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy | Published: Nov 08, 2016

Emmett McLoughlin wrote People's Padre: An Autobiography, based on his experiences as a Roman Catholic priest advocating for the health of people in…

By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy | Published: Nov 08, 2016

The Planned Parenthood Committee of Phoenix was established in 1942 to expand Arizona women's access to family planning resources. The Planned…

By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy, Malladi Lakshmeeramya | Published: Oct 13, 2016

Margaret Higgins Sanger advocated for birth control in the United States and Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.…

By: Claudia Nunez-Eddy | Published: Oct 13, 2016

Margaret Goldwater advocated for birth control and reproductive rights in the United States during the twentieth century. Goldwater was a socialite…

By: Christina Raup | Published: Jul 01, 2010

The birth control pill, more commonly known as "the pill" is a form of contraception taken daily in pill form and consisting of synthetic hormones…

By: Aliya Buttar, Sheraden Seward | Published: Jan 20, 2009

Enovid was the first hormonal birth control pill. G. D. Searle and Company began marketing Enovid as a contraceptive in 1960. The technology was…

By: Sheraden Seward | Published: Jan 13, 2009

The Comstock Law was a controversial law because it limited the reproductive rights of women and violated every person's right to privacy. This…

By: Aliya Buttar, Sheraden Seward | Published: Sep 04, 2008

Plan B is a progestin-only emergency contraceptive pill (ECP) that can be taken within seventy-two hours of unprotected sex in order to prevent an…