Linda Gordon, Professor of History at New York University, says that controlling reproduction is an essential, historical element of human society.
There has never been a civilization in which people did not try to control birth rates, a fact often misunderstood by people who think of birth control as a modern invention, professor Linda Gordon says at news briefing on the 40th anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut.(:51)
June 6, 2005
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