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Since the early twentieth century, a lot of the legal constraints on
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publishing and distributing literature have eased.
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In the 1870s,
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the Comstock laws in the United States aimed to regulate
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the use of the mails for the dissemination of obscene materials.
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These laws were used in 1914 to indict Margaret Sanger for sending
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information about contraception across state lines,
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and she had to flee,
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and she left the country to protect herself.
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So, just the description of how contraception worked was a violation
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of the Comstock laws; so of course we're happily
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out of that moment.