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In the late nineteenth century, the Comstock Act of 1873 made the distribution of contraception illegal and classified contraception as an obscenity. Reflecting the predominant attitude towards contraception at the time, the Comstock Act was the first federal anti-obscenity law that targeted contraception.
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- Malladi, Lakshmeeramya (Author)
- Maienschein, Jane (Thesis director)
- O'Neil, Erica (Committee member)
- Abboud, Alexis (Committee member)
- School of Molecular Sciences (Contributor)
- School of Life Sciences (Contributor)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
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2017-05
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