Birth-control Campaigner -

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, birth-control campaigners were seen as some of the most dangerous subversives in society. To advocate for reproductive autonomy was to challenge the very foundations of the church, the law, and the traditional family structure.

An anarchist who viewed large families as a way for the state to provide "cannon fodder" for wars and cheap labor for factories [4]. She was frequently arrested for giving public lectures on "family limitation." birth-control campaigner

In the United States, the primary obstacle was the , which defined information about contraception as "obscene" and "lewd" [1]. It was a federal crime to send such information through the mail or transport it across state lines. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries,