"Momma's Got the Pill": How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped US Childbearing

Martha J Bailey1

  • 1Department of Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

The American Economic Review
|March 7, 2018
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