Katharine Dexter McCormick

Katharine Dexter McCormick

In the 1920s, women's rights activist Katharine Dexter McCormick would smuggle contraceptive diaphragms into the US by sewing them into her clothes when she traveled to Europe. Contraception was illegal in much of the United States until the 60s and 70s.

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