They will present papers on everything from child marriage in Canada to why dodgeball is problematic. In defiance of Depression-era social norms, and under the threat of public shame, they admitted, through an interpreter, that, yes, they’d asked for birth control. Infant and child mortality were high — they were worried any more babies they had would die … or that they would. She stood accused of advertising contraceptives, which was then an obscenity under the Criminal Code of Canada. The prosecutor called dozens of Eastview women whom Palmer had served to testify that she had, indeed, advertised contraceptives to them.

Source: National Post June 04, 2019 10:07 UTC