Tell Me Something Creepy

#29: Let’s Go, Girls


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It's all about the ladies! Rocky dives into the darker history of the birth control pill, and Mary tells the story of America's "first" female serial killer, Lavinia Fisher.

https://www.today.com/life/inspiration/womens-history-month-rcna17775

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-puerto-rico-pill-trials/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Marion_Sims

https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/womens-history-us-timeline

https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/immigration-detention-and-coerced-sterilization-history-tragically-repeats-itself/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_on_the_Principle_of_Population

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/voluntary-motherhood/

https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/14/432080520/fact-check-was-planned-parenthood-started-to-control-the-black-population

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Goodwin_Pincus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rock_(scientist)

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-dr-john-rock-1890-1984/

https://www.history.com/news/birth-control-pill-history-puerto-rico-enovid

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/07/23/racism-eugenics-margaret-sanger-deserves-no-honors-column/5480192002/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/eugenics-movement#7

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/nyregion/ny-planned-parenthood-laura-mcquade.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/nyregion/planned-parenthood-margaret-sanger-eugenics.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraceptive_trials_in_Puerto_Rico#:~:text=The%20first%20large%2Dscale%20human,and%20trials%20of%20test%20drugs.

https://www.classicalhistorian.com/johns-blog/margaret-sanger

https://www.history.com/news/birth-control-pill-history-puerto-rico-enovid

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/sc-laviniafisher/

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