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Malcom Bissell’s essay on birth control discusses how small group meetings in people’s home might be the most effect way of disseminating birth control information. I think this is very telling of society’s views at the time. Clearly, birth control was wanted and necessary, but there was such a social stigma and controversy over using it that people didn’t want to be publicly seen as seeking out information. – Cat Debelius | Malcom Bissell’s essay on birth control discusses how small group meetings in people’s home might be the most effect way of disseminating birth control information. I think this is very telling of society’s views at the time. Clearly, birth control was wanted and necessary, but there was such a social stigma and controversy over using it that people didn’t want to be publicly seen as seeking out information. – Cat Debelius | ||
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| + | Kind of going off of what Cat said, I was kind of impressed with the flow of communication that had been started by the time of this document. The one comment that really struck me was, "There are abundant signs that the public is ready to give its support to Birth Control." It shows how much has changed since the Victorian era we had spent so much time on but it is also kind of a loaded statement. It's pretty dangerous to make such a statement in a society that still clearly had such strong opposition to contraceptive methods which are apparent to us by all the various documents we've read for this week. Nonetheless, I'm impressed he had the audacity to make such a statement and enforce such a movement towards providing birth control to women (and their husbands of course). -- Kelly Wuyscik | ||
