​1916 -  Planned Parenthood was founded.

1923​ - Sanger opens the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau in Manhattan.

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1930​ - Margaret Sanger and other New Yorkers, opened more clinics in Manhattan and the Bronx. The clinic was know as "Mother’s Health Centers," but soon changed to Planned Parenthood.


1960 - Planned Parenthood became the new voice and organization for women’s rights.


May 9, 1960​ -  “U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the sale of oral pills for contraception.” This was a way for women to finally have a grip on their lives and how they want to move forward with it.


1962​ - Alan Guttmacher becomes the president of Planned Parenthood.


1970 - Congress and President Nixon passes the Title X law of the Public Health Service Act which means that they are allowed to have sex education and find a way to prevent teenage pregnancy and marriage.
Roe (Norma M) , challenges Texas abortion laws stating that women should have the right, under the 14th amendments, to have the right to an abortion even if a doctor does not state that the birth will harm the mother. Wade was the prosecutor and fought for the current law.

Law changes. It is legal up until the 3rd trimester (7 months)


1971 - Planned Parenthood became an international organization.


1976 - Congress passes the Hyde Amendment, banning the use of federal Medicaid funds for abortion unless the pregnant woman's life is endangered.


1986 - It became one of the largest organization in the U.S.


June 8, 2006​ - FDA approves HPV vaccines. This vaccine protects women from genital warts and cervical cancer.


July 17, 2006 ​- New and improved birth control pills were invented.


August 24, 2006 - FDA approves the emergency contraception pill called Plan B.

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January 2009​ - President Obama overturns the “global gag rule,”