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The National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control was a birth control lobbying organization set up in 1929 in
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by Margaret Sanger and the
Illinois Birth Control League The Illinois Birth Control League (IBCL) was an organization created by the Chicago Citizens' Committee and the Chicago Woman's Club, to provide information and education about birth control. Later, the organization helped create the first birth co ...
. The organization was set up into four regional sections. Its headquarters was moved to
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in 1933. The committee was disbanded in 1937, six months after the successful outcome in favor of birth control of the court case ''
United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries ''United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries'', 86 F.2d 737 (2d Cir. 1936) (often just ''U.S. v. One Package''), was an ''in rem'' United States Court of Appeals case in the Second Circuit involving birth control. Background In 1873 Co ...
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Birth control movement in the United States The birth control movement in the United States was a social reform campaign beginning in 1914 that aimed to increase the availability of contraception in the U.S. through education and legalization. The movement began in 1914 when a group of p ...
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