Margaret sangers fight for the legalization of birth control

controversial figure. she wanted to change peoples idelogies towards birth control. Sanger

believed that women had the right to experience sexual pleasure and be able to explore there

sexuality with out having to worry about the consequences. She thought it was unfair for men to

explore their sexual desire but women had to worry about the fear of pregnancy. After getting

married and having three children, Margaret became a member of the socialist party and began a

career in nursing. she realized how uneducated women were when working in the poverty

stricken areas of New York. She had many horrific experience of women having five dollar

abortions and many dying for complications. this is when she decided she need to give women a

In 1912, she began writing for the socialist paper “The Call”, she caused much

controversy and an uproar when she wrote on the topic of syphilis. But, her paper was banned

ans not mailed out because of the Comstock Act of 1873. The Comstock Act forbidden any

written information of birth control methods. Later on she started her own feminist newspaper

e Woman Rebel”,wich contain information on contraceptives and venereal diseases. Once

advocates in Europe and Asia. Even in 1940 Eleanor Roosevelt was in favor of birth control and

Gregory Pincus. Soon after her and Gregory started their project they met Katherine McCormick

There was many extenuating circumstance this woman has overcome to better our

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