Effort to give women control over reproduction?

• A. New feminism
• B. ERA
• C. Birth control movement
• D. Flappers

Answer: (C)

The main idea here is the birth control movement, the effort to give women control over reproduction by providing information and access to contraception. This movement grew out of concerns about women’s health, economic self-sufficiency, and public health, especially as laws like the Comstock laws tried to restrict birth-control information. Activists such as Margaret Sanger argued that women should have the right to decide when to have children, leading to clinics, education, and advocacy for legal access to contraception. That push for reproductive autonomy helped lay the groundwork for later legal changes that expanded access to birth control. The other options point to broader feminism, a constitutional equality amendment, or a cultural trend, none of which center specifically on controlling reproduction in the way the birth control movement does.