02/14/26 - 04/05/26
Cleveland Botanical Garden
Dittrick Medical History Center

The Dittrick Medical History Center, affiliated with Case Western Reserve University, is dedicated to researching the history of medicine through a rich collection of rare books, artifacts, archives, and images. Originally part of the Cleveland Medical Library Association, established in... more
Doctors, Suffragists, Socialists, Eugenicists: Identities and Politics in the Early Birth Control Movement
Presented by Dr. Lauren Macivor Thompson
This talk will focus on the wide range of actors involved in the early birth control movement and their motivations. Physicians, scientists, women's rights activists, and Progressive reformers were often vocal supporters for legalizing contraception, but a fair number in each of those groups also opposed the movement for both moral reasons and reasons of professional power consolidation. Together, medicine, the science of eugenics, and birth control converged in the 1930s to shape legalization, access, and acceptance by the American public in ways that still have profound consequences today.
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