“A need for family planning/Spiraling population growth–a source of economic and political difficulties facing mankind.” As a syndicated news article noted in 1972, the stamp looked “innocuous enough,” with its portrait of a happy, white, middle-class family of four, but it stirred up plenty of controversy.

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In the 1970s, the US Postal Service Made a Controversial Stamp Promoting Birth Control - BUST

Though it seems unimaginable in today’s post-Roe climate, 50 years ago, the United States Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp honoring family

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