Analysis Of Margaret Sanger's Free Motherhood

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Margaret Sanger on “Free Motherhood” from women and the New Race (1920) Almost, if not every American is aware of The Bill of Rights, the laws that our country is run by. The first and foremost amendment grants American the freedom of Speech, Press, Religion, and Petition. The question is, were these amendments not to be followed in the early1900’s? Margaret Sanger: an activist reformer in the 1900’s, a teacher, and a nurse. She tried to petition with her birth given rights of freedom of speech along with her knowledge to petition for women’s rights but was imprisoned for some doing so. Her rights and freedom as an American were violated and taken away. Freedom was, and is still, today defined differently for everyone. Margaret Sanger stood…show more content…
In the document Sanger portrays herself as an educated women who is able to form her own opinions. Women in the working class in the 1900’s could not form their own opinions because they had no knowledge. Sanger specifically targets the issue of contraceptives. She believed they should be legal and information of contraceptives should be spread amongst women everywhere. Sanger took the initiative and tried to educated women everywhere. Sanger adds “Most women who belong to the workers’ families have no accurate or reliable knowledge of contraceptives, and are, therefore, bringing children into the world so rapidly that they, their families and their class are overwhelmed in numbers.” Women are being overwhelmed, households are becoming so large that living conditions are unbearable and women are the first to…show more content…
To make your own decisions particularly for happiness.6 Denying women birth control is to deny women personal freedom therefore making one not value life to its fullest. In the eyes of Margaret Sanger, freedom is the ability to make choices and control ones own body. The document “Free Motherhood” takes us to a time period that freedom was unclear for most of America. America was deciding what rights certain Americans should have. Unfortunately this problem still continues today. In the recent 2012 election birth control was mentioned in Mitt Romney’s political agenda. Mitt Romney, like many politicians in the 1900’s believe birth control should be illegal. Although American policy has changed drastically there are still many flaws in political views, and freedom is still loosely defined. Freedom is happiness; it is the ability to create ones own happiness. The first amendments of the constitution, The Bill of Rights was written to ensure American rights and that Americans rights will not be denied these rights. In the 1900’s women were denied their basic rights as an American citizen. Margaret Sanger saw women as individuals who were stripped of basic freedom and she petitioned for what she knew was right. Letting a women control her own body is
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