Birth Control in the 1960s and 70s

There were efforts to increase the prevalence of birth control consumption and abortions among black poor immigrant indigenous women. Some like Margaret sanger or sanger advocated for birth control to reduce the number of workers which was very racist, according to historian Julian Zelizer. In the 1970s there was a case in which two sisters mini and mary ralph who were two kids they were forcibly sterilized because they were deemed mentally unstable or mentally disabled so it was used as justification.