contraceptives promote promiscuity and lewd behavior

Initial birth control laws had little to do with right-to-life issues, but instead reflected the view that contraceptives promoted promiscuity and lewd behavior.

The major players in this should-we or shouldn’t-we drama were Anthony Comstock, who presented the federal government with an anti-obscenity bill, and birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger.

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The author = Rosemary E. Bachelor

She descends from three Mayflower pilgrims and numerous pre-1650 immigrants to New England.
She also wrote about birth control history