Reproductive Rights: Who Decides?

This history traces efforts to control reproduction from early practices involving herbs and rituals to major twentieth-century debates in the United States. It covers restrictions that once barred discussion, use, or distribution of birth control in some places, as well as campaigns for legal access to contraception and the arrival of the Pill. The account also considers the Supreme Court decision recognizing a constitutional right to abortion and connects these developments to disputes over contraception, sex education, and abortion. Photographs and substantial back matter accompany the discussion.