Women's rights
Over the years women have always fought for their rights: for the right to vote, for the right to fight among the men in the Army and even for the right to get paid the same amount for doing the same work as men. Most of the fights were for rights that were guaranteed to women by the constitution but were denied. Over the decades women have also fought for something that the American people have enjoyed over the years with ease of mind: birth control. Not only did the women of the United States fight for the rights they are passionate about but they also opened up the doors for the subject that is not anymore considered Taboo or wrong. Now everyone who is sexually active can gain information on contraceptives. In Women and Power in American History, Linda Gordon tells the story of how one woman named Margaret Sanger struggled to get a license for a clinic that she was running to be able to give information on contraceptives. While Jessie M. Rodrique informed the public through the book about the African Americans' struggle not only to provide the contraceptive information for their people but also to provide a better standing for themselves. "Sex radicals who began the birth-control movement before the First World War were amat
Of course, even then anybody who wants to know about the contraceptives would be able to get the information they want, just by asking their doctor. rural black women in Georgia drank turpentine. Not only was it used it was been sold out of a catalog within a newspaper published by the African American Community. Rodrique picks up were Linda Gordon left off, and talks about the effects the birth control movement had on the African American community. "Taking advantage of their class privileges for their own personal advancement the prosperous reformers of the 1920s lost the mass base that could have made them a powerful influence. However, as Rodrique pointed out it is not so. Of course and those who knew that Sanger was behind it knew her to have a "radical reputation" (Gordon 133), which in fact with "the opposition of the Catholic Church lead the State Board to refuse a license" (Gordon 133) to supply and practice in contraceptives. While at the same time bringing down the male counterparts, such as Fredrick Blossom, who was recruited to do fund raising for Sanger, and had a dispute with her leaving her with the accounts of the Review, which is another one of Sanger's accomplishments. Though at first any reader would guess that the African American community had something else to worry about beside birth control that the movement for the equal right was taking most of their the time. Sanger was out of luck and out of ideas as well, the down turn in the economy that followed the end of the World War I did not help the situation either. as an abortifacient" (Rodrique 143), African American women not only where fighting for the right of the proper abortion but for the right to live a healthy live since turpentine is not the healthiest way to get an abortion. Both authors do a great job presenting the information to the readers, covering each other in case one forgot to mention something.
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