William F. "Bill" Baird is the founder of the Pro Choice League. Baird established the nation's first abortion referral center in 1964, and later the first birth control and abortion center on a college campus. He was sent to jail for teaching birth control and distributing abortion literature in New York and New Jersey and sentenced to three months for his pro-choice activities.[1] Baird's punishment galvanized feminists like Anne Koedt to speak out in his defense.[2]