Margaret Sanger's Role In The Birth Control Movement

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This research paper will explore the significance of Margaret Sanger’s role in the birth control movement and her contribution to the Planned parenthood clinics of today. It will discuss the often illegal tactics she used to distribute her propaganda and her controversial ideals. Margaret Louise Higgins and American Birth Control Activist was best noted for coining the phrase “Birth Control” and spearheading the Birth control Movement in the united states.
She was born in Corning, New York on September 14 1879, the 6th of 11 children. Her mother Anne Purcell Higgins was a devout catholic and father Michael Hennessy Higgins an activist for women’s suffrage and free public education. The era during her birth was coined “the Gilded age” by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their book titled “The Gilded Age” because of the rapid economic and population growth during the post- Civil war era and the extravagant display of wealth and excess.
Margaret went to a boarding school in Claverack for two years with the help of her older sisters. She returned home to care for her mother who had developed tuberculosis and cervical cancer. She nursed her mother until her death on March 31st 1986, which Margaret contributed to her mothers multiple pregnancies, 18 totaled and 11 live births.
In 1900 Margaret enrolled into a Nursing School at White Plains hospital, in New York and by 1902 was married to architect William Sanger and had 3 children. The family settled in the
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Ultimately Margaret’s original charges where dropped due to public sympathy for Sanger because of the sudden death of her five year old daughter Peggy in November. Sanger went on a nationwide tour to promote birth control. Her radical style caused arrests in several cities garnering her wide publicity to her
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