On October 16, 1916, a nurse named Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in America. Nine days later, police raided it and shut it down.
The quick crackdown on Sanger's clinic is a testament to how contraceptives for females have been historically controversial, scrutinized — even inaccessible — for over a century. Given how little controversy has arisen over male condoms, one wonders how the narrative around birth control for the female reproductive system, which popularly comes in hormonal pill form, would be different if males were the ones to consume them.
