Margaret Sanger, born in 1879 as Margaret Higgins, was an early feminist, women's rights activist, and writer. Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States in 1916, and established organizations that would later evolve into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (“Margaret Sanger”). Early on in life, Sanger worked as a nurse. While working as a nurse, she was exposed to realistic examples of women who underwent botched “back alley”
Margaret Sanger is one of the top ten most influential female nurses of all time, according to the Scrubs Magazine (Scrubs Contributor, 2012). Margaret was a woman activist who promoted women’s health, sexuality, and birth control education (Margaret Sanger Biography, 2014). As a nurse in her adult life, she worked with a lot of woman in New York that pertained to the immigrant communities. These women faced unwanted pregnancies and suffered the aftermath of self-induced abortions (Margaret Sanger
society. In addition to giving birth to an uncontrollable amount of babies during this time period, women were unable to gain access to certain preventative measures such as birth control. In an effort for women to gain control over their lives, Margaret Sanger promoted the idea of contraception through the Planned Parenthood movement. Planned Parenthood is a program that has been servicing communities for over 100 years. Planned Parenthood provides sexual health care and preventative services for women
Margaret Sanger's main argument was that birth control was being misrepresented by its opponents, "At times I have been discouraged and disheartened by the deliberate misrepresentation of the Birth Control movement by the opponents, and by the crude tactics used to combat it. (Margaret Sanger 1928, 202) The evidence Margaret Sanger uses to support her anti-war argument is a letter she received from one of her supporters, “one month before my thirteenth birthday I became the mother of my first child
which was fascinating to me. I knew most of the basic information, but the controversy surrounding Margaret Sanger shocked and enraged me, which lead me to want to do more research on the evolution of Planned Parenthood from its inception to present day. The heartbreaking past of Planned Parenthood has evolved into one of the largest health care providers in the nation. Before World War I, Margaret Sanger approached the topics of sexuality and sexual health from a feminist perspective. However, as time
issues set by activists such as Margaret Sanger with the importance of planned parenthood, also know as birth control. Margaret Sanger is believed to be known as the original founder of the Planned Parenthood Clinics around the United States; Sanger was born as Margaret Louise Higgins on September 14, 1879 in Corning, New York to Michael Hennessey Higgins, an Irish-born stonemason with iconoclastic ideas, and Anne Purcell Higgins, a devoutly Catholic Irish-American. Sangers mother (Anne), died from tuberculosis
Women’s and Their Rights to Birth Control Introduction In an article titled “Women’s Right to Birth Control” by Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, in this article Sanger refers to the Comstock Law of 1873, which proscribed women from obtaining information about birth control and birth control devices. Sanger believed that women should have been given a choice of whether they wanted to have children or not. However, women today can go to their health provider and not only get birth control
The Birth Control Movement of the 1900s, led by Margaret Sanger, influenced the way that birth control is looked at today by proving that the pill is a source of population control in our society. According to the Medical Dictionary, “Birth control is the use of any practices, methods, or devices to prevent pregnancy from occurring in a sexually active woman. Also referred to as family planning, pregnancy prevention, fertility control, or contraception; birth control methods are designed either to
essential to be able to identify barriers in our critical thinking skills in order to produce better arguments overall. Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) is among one of the many inspirational feminists that ever existed in America. Although her ideas exemplified those of a good critical thinker, she also presented barriers that impeded those of a great critical thinker. Margret Sanger demonstrated excellent use of analytical skills, research and inquiry skills, and creative problem solving skills; however
Many people have grown to rely on planned parenthood for them giving out contraceptives such as condoms and different forms of birth control. As stated in the book Birth Control Politics, “Margaret Sanger...coined the term birth control, maintained that access to contraception as a woman's fundamental right” (McCann, 1). Many people are for Planned Parenthood because we have an organization that provides many contraceptives. People also appreciate