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In 1948, Sanger helped found the International Committee on Planned Parenthood, which evolved into the International Planned Parenthood Federation in 1952, and soon became the world's largest non-governmental international women's health, family planning and birth control organization.
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- September 6, 1966 (aged 86), Tucson, Arizona, U.S.
- Margaret Louise Higgins, September 14, 1879, Corning, New York, U.S.
- Ethel Byrne (sister)
Oct 14, 2016 · An advocate for women’s reproductive rights who was also a vocal eugenics enthusiast, Margaret Sanger leaves a complicated legacy — and one that conservatives have periodically leveraged into...
May 13, 2024 · Margaret Sanger, founder of the birth control movement in the United States and an international leader in the field. Sanger founded the Birth Control League, the parent organization of the Birth Control Federation of America, later renamed the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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Planned Parenthood traces its roots back to a nurse named Margaret Sanger. Sanger grew up in an Irish family of 11 children in Corning, New York. Her mother, in fragile health from many pregnancies, including seven miscarriages, died at age 50 of tuberculosis.
MARGARET SANGER — OUR FOUNDER Sanger’s battle for family planning was unrelenting, unyielding, and totally focused. Her crusade made it legal to publish and distribute information about sex, sexuality, and birth control. It: • created access to birth control for, as she saw it, poor women, women of color, and immigrant women;
In 1921 she founded the American Birth Control League, the precursor to the Planned Parenthood Federation, and spent her next three decades campaigning to bring safe and effective birth...
Nov 27, 2017 · Named after Margaret Sanger (1879-1966), the founder of the Birth Control League (the future Planned Parenthood), the square honors an improbable feminist icon who championed a coercive...
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