Many other states followed with similar legislation.
Law did not hold up in Maine Supreme Court because it changed common law.
By 1850, many resorted to abortion to control unplanned pregnancy even though the estimated death rate was 15 times higher than death by child birth.
The wealthy were able to import diaphragms and cervical caps and afford condoms. Poor used withdrawal.
The first advertisement for condoms was published in an American newspaper when The New York Times printed an ad for "Dr. Power's French Preventatives."
The law bans materials sent through the mail that are obscene, information about contraception, and abortion information. The ban includes all contraceptives.
President Theodore Roosevelt in March 1905, attacked birth control and condemned the tendency towards smaller families as decadent, a sign of moral disease.
Sanger and Pincus meet at a dinner party in New York; she persuades him to work on a birth control pill.
Ten days after the opening, Sanger and Byrne were arrested and each received 30 days in jail.
McCormick meets Sanger. McCormick provides funding for Sanger's clinics and research.
