History, Politics, and Contraception

NPR’s Fresh Air interviews Jill Lepore, Professor of History at Harvard University and author of the current New Yorker piece “Birthright: What’s Next for Planned Parenthood.” Listen to How Birth Control Became Politicized here.  You can also watch a detailed history of Margaret Sanger’s fight to legalize contraception and to develop a birth control pill through the Greenwood Library streaming video system. This episode of the American Experience is called  The Pill.