Before gall wasp expert Alfred Kinsey turned to the study of human sexuality, another biologist made her move.

Before the arrival of home pregnancy tests, women had to seek answers at the doctor’s office, which was costly, inconvenient, and potentially embarrassing.

In a dramatic act of civil disobedience, more than three hundred French women publicly confessed to having had an illegal abortion.

In the pre-Roe era, a collective of women known as The Janes took reproductive health into their own hands.

A selection of stories on the history of reproductive rights and abortion to foster dialogue inside and outside of the classroom.

One scholar chronicles how communities have banded together to help each other with abortion care even when it’s against the law.

The fight to gain scientists' support for the birth control movement proved a turning point in contraceptive science—and led to a research revolution.

And it's unlikely to be the last. One scholar looks at the factors that contributed to the increase in childlessness at the turn of the twentieth century.

In the early days of fertility treatments, some doctors theorized that women’s unconscious hatred of their husbands kept them from conceiving.

Decades after Charles Knowlton died, his book would be credited with the reversal of population growth in England and the popularization of contraception in the United States.