<P> In 1932 , Margaret Sanger arranged for a shipment of diaphragms to be mailed from Japan to a sympathetic doctor in New York City . When U.S. customs confiscated the package as illegal contraceptive devices , Sanger helped file a lawsuit . In 1936 , a federal appeals court ruled in United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries that the federal government could not interfere with doctors providing contraception to their patients . In 1938 , over three hundred birth control clinics opened in America , supplying reproductive care ( including condoms ) to poor women all over the country . Programs led by U.S. Surgeon General Thoman Parran included heavy promotion of condoms . These programs are credited with a steep drop in the U.S. STD rate by 1940 . </P>
<P> In 1932 , Margaret Sanger arranged for a shipment of diaphragms to be mailed from Japan to a sympathetic doctor in New York City . When U.S. customs confiscated the package as illegal contraceptive devices , Sanger helped file a lawsuit . In 1936 , a federal appeals court ruled in United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries that the federal government could not interfere with doctors providing contraception to their patients . In 1938 , over three hundred birth control clinics opened in America , supplying reproductive care ( including condoms ) to poor women all over the country . Programs led by U.S. Surgeon General Thoman Parran included heavy promotion of condoms . These programs are credited with a steep drop in the U.S. STD rate by 1940 . </P>
when did condoms become legal in the us
when did condoms become legal in the us
1936
1936