Margaret Sanger, American Social #2
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Margaret Sanger, American Social #2
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Margaret Sanger, American founder of the birth control movement. Banned from speaking publicly in Boston in 1929, Sanger dramatized the injustice by having her lips sealed with tape, then writing out her lecture on a blackboard. Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 - September 6, 1966 was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. In 1916, Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, which led to her arrest for distributing information on contraception, after an undercover policewoman bought a copy of her pamphlet on family planning. Her subsequent trial and appeal generated controversy. Sanger felt that in order for women to have a more equal footing in society and to lead healthier lives, they needed to be able to determine when to bear children. She also wanted to prevent so-called back-alley abortions, which were common at the time because abortions were illegal in the United States. In 1921, Sanger founded the American Birth Control League, which later became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. In New York City, she organized the first birth control clinic staffed by all-female doctors, as well as a clinic in Harlem with an all African-American advisory council, where African-American staff were later added. From 1952 to 1959, Sanger served as president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. Sanger died of congestive heart failure in 1966, at the age of 86, about a year after the U.S. Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut legalized birth control.
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