Before we begin, we must say that Margaret Sanger is involved in this. Sanger is a complex figure. On the one hand, she pioneered the USA's birth control movement and personally put her neck on the line for access to contraception. On the other, she had links with the eugenics movement. We acknowledge this.
In the USA in the 1930s, the situation regarding contraception was complex. It was simultaneously kind of legal and not legal. One major barrier to contraception was the Comstock Act, provisions in federal law which prohibited obscene matter being distributed via mail. Contraceptive devices and information about contraception were included under this definition of obscene matter.
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