A brief overview of American reproductive history
Abortion and contraception in the nineteenth century
Race suicide, eugenics, and contraception, 1900-1930
Population control and the Great Depression, 1930-1939
World War II, the baby boom, and the population explosion, 1939-1963
Who pays? contraceptive services and the welfare state, 1963-1975
Who pays for what? abortion and sterilization, 1960-1975
Backlash, 1973-2000
Conclusion.