The first family planning clinic was opened in 1882 in the Netherlands by Aletta Jacobs. Activists in the early 1900s, such as Margaret Sanger, allowed contraception to become an option to couples that were not ready to conceive. In 1916, Sanger opened the first family planning clinic in Brooklyn, New York. It received a great deal of backlash from numerous individuals and was forced to close down a few days after opening.
