In 1916 Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S., in Brooklyn. She was arrested and charged with maintaining a “public nuisance,” and in 1917 she served 30 days in the Queens penitentiary. Sanger’s legal appeals prompted the federal courts to reinterpret the Comstock Act, permitting physicians to import and prescribe contraceptives.
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