Author Question: Early American women learned about contraception from family, friends, physicians, and through ... (Read 88 times)

laurencescou · **on:** Jun 18, 2018

Early American women learned about contraception from family, friends, physicians, and through advertisements, until the actions of ____, who lead a one-man purity campaign that changed how society viewed and treated womens' reproductive health issues.

a. Andrew Witherspoon c. Albert Tompkins
b. Benjamin Andrews d. Anthony Comstock

Question 2

Sarah and Paul are a young married couple living in the early 1960s. They have five children and are struggling to make ends meet, as Paul has recently returned to graduate school. Sarah refuses to have sex with Paul out of fear of getting pregnant again.

Why has Sarah not consider using contraception?

a. The cost of contraceptives was so high at that time that only the very wealthy routinely used contraception.
b. Many believed at that time that most contraceptives were ineffective.
c. The contraceptives available at that time had many risks associated with them, including the high probability of uterine hemorrhage and possibly death.
d. The use of contraception in the U.S. was criminalized at that time.