The #ComstockLaw was enacted on #ThisDayInHistory in 1873, making it a federal crime to discuss things like #BirthControl via the post. #Censorship of material sent through by mail for being "obscene" or "immoral" is itself immoral for applying subjective standards universally.

DYK #MargaretSanger opened the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau on Fifth Avenue NYC in 1923? Dr. Hannah Mayer Stone led the staff so women could get birth control under medical supervision & to study the effects on women's health in order to challenge the #ComstockLaw.