Margaret Sanger’s “My Fight for Birth Control” is truly a moving and emotional text depicting the pregnancy/abortion related horrors women had to live through (and very often, died for). She had worked as a nurse, able to witness first hand the suffering of these mostly poor/middle class women and also the ignorance in which this problem stemmed from. This is exemplified by her opening quote, “… I came to a sudden realization that my work as a nurse and my activities in social service were entirely palliative and consequently futile and usel