Their only method of family planning was to line up on Saturdays with five dollars and submit to hack abortionists. She was amazed to find they knew virtually nothing about contraception and basic sanitation. They were strangers to their own bodies. She started writing for a radical paper, The Call, and announced a series of articles about venereal disease, and other reproductive issues to be called “What Every Girl Should Know.” She was promptly told by postal authorities that the entire issue would be suppressed for violating the Comstock laws.
