Margaret Sanger: The Birth Control Movement Of The 1900s

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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 prevent fertilization of an egg or implantation of a fertilized egg in the uterus.” Margaret Sanger believed that universal access to birth control would reduce abortion, decrease poverty, and strengthen families. She helped women gain the right to decide when or whether to have children, which was a struggle with not…show more content…
In 1921 she started the American Birth Control League – a precursor to Planned Parenthood – that focused on the global issues of world population growth, disarmament, and world famine. The same year, Sanger held a conference – the American Birth Control Conference – in New York, where she was, yet again, arrested for attempting a mass meeting on birth control. But just shortly after, she opened the Birth Control Clinic Research Bureau in New York, the first legal clinic to distribute contraceptives information and fit diaphragms. Although, it was not until 1936 that the federal court ruled that the US government could not interfere with the importation of diaphragms for medical use. (The Pill, 2001) Finally in 1937 birth control was legalized in the United States. Following the legalization, the American Medical Association approved birth control as an essential part of medical practice and education. This approval was one of the most important achievements in the movement. (The Public Papers …
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