Heliograph<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@kottke" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>kottke</span></a></span> wow what a woman :O :akko_fistup: <br>"<a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/McCormick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>McCormick</span></a>’s interest in <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/birthcontrol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>birthcontrol</span></a> began in the 1910s, when she learned of Margaret Sanger, the feminist leader who had been jailed for opening the nation’s first birth control clinic. She shared Sanger’s fervent belief that women should be able to chart their own biological destinies. From 1922 to 1925, McCormick smuggled more than 1,000 <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/diaphragms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diaphragms</span></a> into Sanger’s clinics."</p>