How Margaret Sanger & Katharine Dexter McCormick Saved the World

This week, how do I sum this up? I was freewheeling a little today, but have I got a tale of resistance, and a weird little man for you all. Anthony Comstock was a weird, joyless guy - and his ‘Comstockery’ ruined many ordinary lives - but hell hath no fury like Margaret Sanger and Katharine Dexter McCormick - our heroines this week. 

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I was free associating things I knew this week, rather than going off a script - but Andrew Marr’s A History of the World was where I first came across this tale.

Tyler Mahan Coe’s episode of Cocaine and Rhinestones on Loretta Lynn’s The Pill is definitely in the mix on this one too…

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