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In 1940, a Seattle group, participants in the Planned Parenthood movement founded by Margaret Sanger, opens the city's first birth control clinic. An important leader in the clinic is Jeanne L. Percy, a nurse.

The clinic opened at 516 Broadway.

Sources:

Mildred Tanner Andrews, Woman's Place: A Guide to Seattle and King County History (Seattle: Gemil Press, 1994), 284.

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