Toni Weschler’s best-selling classic ‘Taking Charge of Your Fertility’ took cycle-tracking out of the Catholic Church and into the mainstream. As reproductive rights crumble, she has never been more worried about her readers getting it right.
Women read the book because they wanted children, because their older sisters sent them copies, because they had idly paged through it at a cousin’s house and couldn’t put it down.
As knowledge of FAM grows increasingly mainstream, the stakes and her sense of responsibility have only ratcheted higher — especially given the fact that there is no longer a federally protected right to anWhen the first hormonal-birth-control pill showed up in 1960, it was seen as the modern, feminist way to plan a family.
In those years, before the internet was widespread, the secular FAM network exchanged scientific research by making copies of studies and sending them in the mail. Each woman would receive the packet, copy the information, and then add her own resources and pass it on to the next person. Every year, they would meet up, cramming into hot attics with no air-conditioning or piling into a tiny New York apartment or a yurt in Alabama.
with diametrically opposed goals: people who very much wanted to get pregnant and people who very much did not.
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