Black Market Birth Control There Term Paper

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Tone brings the history of birth control to life, exploring the underbelly of an industry that is not only still booming, but also almost completely culturally accepted in the 21st century. This allows the reader to not only understand the trials and efforts to build up a valuable industry, but the lessons learned about the cultural atmosphere, and both the moral and scientific beliefs of the time can be applied to other topics that the reader may wish to explore. This piece essentially serves as a snapshot of the "real" people that were involved, leaving the broad assumptions and cold historical considerations of the "right" side of the law behind. It is also important to note that the culture of the government is not necessarily an accurate reflection of the popular culture of the time. Even those who participate in the government culture, like Albert Janin, a married lawyer in Washington, D.C., were not immune to the personal issues that inspired people to break these laws.

I really enjoyed the personal nature of the article, which not only allowed the piece to come alive instead of being yet another piece of dry historical work, but also really brought the issue to life since these kinds of laws trickle down to the individual, forcing them to make decisions they may have not ordinarily made. The photographs were also helpful in understanding how crude the science of birth control was at the time. Knowing this fact allows the reader to understand two things: first, how without the efforts of these clandestine entrepreneurs the safe and effective devices we have today would not have been invented.

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And secondly, it helps the audience understand why these laws were put in place to begin with because it illustrates how dangerous and unreliable the contraceptives were.

There is very little about this article that I feel could be improved. The author has explained the laws and the general cultural atmosphere that generated the black market for birth control. Though she hasn't gone into extreme details, this is not necessarily a drawback since she has already stated that the majority of literature on the topic is about this side of the topic. Her goal is clearly to concentrate on the underbelly of the situation, not the law. Though more anecdotal information would have been interesting, it would have generated more of a work of historical fiction than a scholarly work, so even….....

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