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By Debra Michals, PhD | 2017. In the early 20th century, at a time when matters surrounding family planning or women’s healthcare were not spoken in public, Margaret Sanger founded the birth control movement and became an outspoken and life-long advocate for women’s reproductive rights.
Mar 6, 2024 · Margaret Sanger was an early feminist and women's rights activist who coined the term "birth control" and worked towards its legalization. By Biography.com Editors Updated: Mar 6, 2024. Photo...
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.
' The Pill | Article. Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) Margaret Sanger devoted her life to legalizing birth control and making it universally available for women. Born in 1879, Sanger came of...
Dec 28, 2023 · “Woman Rebel” Margaret Sanger spearheaded the birth control movement in the United States, coining the term “birth control” and opening the first birth control clinic in the country. Her activism directly targeted the Comstock Laws, which made it illegal to disseminate birth control information.
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;
Working as a visiting nurse in New York City, Margaret Sanger saw the tragic circumstances of women who sought illegal and unsafe abortions, and those who remained in poverty due to rapidly growing families. She felt a call to action and “resolved that women should have knowledge of contraception.
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