Editing Human sexuality (section)

=== Stigma of contraceptives in the U.S. ===
In 1915, Emma Goldman and Margaret Sanger,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/goldman/MeetEmmaGoldman/birthcontrolpioneer.html|title=Birth Control Pioneer|website=lib.berkeley.edu|access-date=25 July 2019}}</ref> leaders of the birth control movement, began to spread information regarding contraception in opposition to the laws, such as the Comstock Law,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/comstock-law-1873|title=The Comstock Law (1873) {{!}} The Embryo Project Encyclopedia|website=embryo.asu.edu|access-date=25 July 2019}}</ref> that demonized it. One of their main purposes was to assert that the birth control movement was about empowering women with personal reproductive and economic freedom for those who could not afford to parent a child or simply did not want one. Goldman and Sanger saw it necessary to educate people as contraceptives were quickly being stigmatized as a population control tactic due to being a policy limiting births, disregarding that this limitation did not target ecological, political, or large economic conditions.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gordon|first=L.|date=1974|title=The politics of population: birth control and the eugenics movement|journal=Radical America|volume=8|issue=4|pages=61–98|issn=0033-7617|pmid=11615086}}</ref> This stigma targeted lower-class women who had the most need of access to contraception.

Birth control finally began to lose stigma in 1936 when the ruling of U.S. v. One Package<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/united-states-v-one-package-japanese-pessaries-1936|title=United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries (1936) {{!}} The Embryo Project Encyclopedia|website=embryo.asu.edu|access-date=25 July 2019}}</ref> declared that prescribing contraception to save a person's life or well-being was no longer illegal under the Comstock Law. Although opinions varied on when birth control should be available to women, by 1938, there were 347 birth control clinics in the United States but advertising their services remained illegal.

The stigma continued to lose credibility as First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt publicly showed her support for birth control through the four terms her husband served (1933–1945). However, it was not until 1966 that the Federal Government began to fund family planning and subsidized birth control services for lower-class women and families at the order of President Lyndon B. Johnson. This funding continued after 1970 under the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4847a1.htm|title=Achievements in Public Health, 1900–1999: Family Planning|website=cdc.gov|access-date=25 July 2019}}</ref> Today, all Health Insurance Marketplace plans are required to cover all forms of contraception, including sterilization procedures, as a result of The Affordable Care Act signed by President Barack Obama in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/affordable-care-act/|title=Affordable Care Act (ACA) – HealthCare.gov Glossary|website=HealthCare.gov|access-date=25 July 2019}}</ref>