Gabfest Reads: How Two Rivals Shaped Birth Control in America

Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

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🗓️ 16 November 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Political Gabfest host Emily Bazelon talks with author Stephanie Gorton about her new book, The Icon & The Idealist.They discuss racism and prudishness in the early suffragist movement, how eugenics played a role in the birth control movement, and how two different women fought each other, despite wanting the same things. Tweet us your questions @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages could be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Cheyna Roth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know what that is.
0:04.0	An ice cold beer.
0:07.0	What's different?
0:09.0	It's Budweiser, a perfect beer for party season.
0:14.0	Best enjoyed with your best buds.
0:20.0	Cheers to that. Budweiser, Lackenosa. Best enjoyed with your best butts.
0:22.3	Cheers to that.
0:25.3	Budweiser, like no other.
0:26.8	Please drink responsibly.
0:28.5	For the facts, visit drinkaware.com.
0:28.6	com.
0:34.1	Hello and welcome to GabFest Reeds for the month of November.
0:40.0	I'm Emily Bazelon, one of the hosts of Slate's Political Gab Fest. We are here to talk about the icon and the idealist by Stephanie Gorton. Hey Stephanie. Hi, Emily. Thanks for having me.
0:47.4	So glad you're here. So your book tells the story of two women who helped bring birth control to
0:54.0	the United States.
0:55.5	One of them you've probably heard of, Margaret Sanger, who opened the first birth control
1:00.2	clinics in the U.S. and started Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
1:05.4	And the second main character in your book, Stephanie, is Mary Ware-D Dennett, whose trial in 1929 for writing a
1:13.7	booklet about sex education was a landmark victory for free speech and civil rights. And
1:19.5	Dennett also very much for years worked on making birth control legal. So just to set this up a little
1:26.8	bit more, you write that through the hands of Dennett
1:30.2	and Sanger, contraception went from radical fringe to the pages of the ladies' home journal and
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