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7 de jul. de 2021 · How Anti-Vice Crusader Anthony Comstock Sabotaged The Birth Control Movement : NPR. Health. How An Anti-Vice Crusader Sabotaged The Early Birth Control Movement. July 7, 202112:50 PM...
Comstock also arrested the prominent abortion provider Madame Restell. In 1878, he posed as a customer seeking birth control for his wife. Restell provided him with pills and he returned the next day with the police, and arrested her. Rather than face the resulting trial, she committed suicide soon after it began. Destruction of books
Anthony Comstock's "Chastity" Laws. As late as 1960, the American legal system was not hospitable to the idea of birth control. Thirty states had statutes on the books prohibiting or...
23 de may. de 2017 · Anthony Comstock was a US postal inspector and politician who advocated for the suppression of obscenity and vice throughout the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Comstock considered any sexually explicit material like pornography and literature related to birth control and abortion as obscene.
13 de may. de 2022 · Comstock's namesake law, enacted by Congress in 1873, expanded the scope of “obscene, lewd or lascivious” materials banned from mailing to include information on birth control and abortion...
The 1873 act did not focus on fertility control, but was a statute that included birth control and abortion among a long list of commercial obscenities. Comstock rallied against contraceptive devices bought and sold in commercial spaces, not against natural forms of birth control such as abstinence and the rhythm method used privately at home.
Anthony Comstock (born March 7, 1844, New Canaan, Conn., U.S.—died Sept. 21, 1915, New York, N.Y.) was one of the most powerful American reformers, who for more than 40 years led a crusade against what he considered obscenity in literature and in other forms of expression. The epithet “comstockery” came to be synonymous with moralistic censorship.
