Given the strong legal, cultural and religious opposition to birth control in America in the 1950s, the prospects for this crucial next step appeared dim. In the summer of 1955, Gregory Pincus ...

In promoting the development of the birth control pill in the 1950s, Sanger had heralded it as the panacea to world overpopulation, starvation and hunger. Sanger wrote: "I consider that the world ...

Parents forced to give up their babies for adoption in the 1950s, 60s and 70s are being asked ... forced adoptions after reports by the the BBC. Birth mothers have held a series of meetings ...