Congressional Digest

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Politically, the history of birth control and abortion in America has been unremittingly contentious, especially as these issues have become more and more ingrained in public policy. From the opening of the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn in 1916 to the introduction of “the Pill” in 1960, the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, and arguments surrounding fetal tissue research, the debate continues today and is seemingly endless.

The source of the current dispute is the release in the summer of 2015 of a series of secretly taped videos by the anti-abortion group Center fo…