What Is Margaret Sanger's Arguments Of The Birth Control Movement?

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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, and now at the age of thirty I am the mother of eleven children..... My health has been poor the past two years...... Please wont you send me information so I won't have to have anymore children, for we have more now than we can really take of.” (Margaret Sanger 1928, 202) The thought of…show more content…
"Students of modern sexual behavior have quite correctly described the twenties as a turning point, a critical juncture between the strict double standard of the age of Victoria and the permissive sexuality of the age of Freud. Too often, however, the sexual revolution of the twenties has been described exclusively in terms of scattered data suggesting an increase in premarital sexual intercourse on the part of women." (Paula S. Fass 1923, 208) The evidence the author uses is statistics from the beginning of the 1920's to the end. "One is tempted to picture investigators hunting for that special morning between 1919 and 1929 when 51% of the young unmarried women in American awoke to find that they were no longer virgins." (Paula S. Fass 1923, 208) From relationships, sex, and petting, to smoking, dancing, and drinking, to women’s fashion, their short skirts, and their cosmetics the people of the 20’s and especially the women changed the social tendencies and lifestyle behaviors
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