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Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger worked as a nurse. Because she worked at a nursing home in NY, she was aware of the downfalls of unplanned pregnancies. After eleven children, Margaret’s mother’s health was in poor condition. This is what influenced her to spread the word about birth control, a term which Margaret was credited with inventing.
In 1912, Sanger gave up nursing work to dedicate herself to the distribution of birth control information. However, the Comstock Act of 1873 was used to forbid distribution of birth control devices and information. She wrote articles on health for the Socialist Party paper, the Call, and collected and published articles as What Every Girl Should Know (1916) and What Every Mother Should Know (1917).
In 1913 she founded a paper called “Women Rebel.” She was indicted for "mailing obscenities," fled to Europe, and the indictment was withdrawn. In 1914 she founded the National Birth Control League which was taken over by Mary Ware Dennett and others while Sanger was in Europe.
In 1916, Sanger set up the first birth control clinic in the United States, and the following year, she was sent to the workhouse for "creating a public nuisance." Her many arrests and prosecutions, helped lead to changes in laws giving doctors the right to give birth control advice to patients. In 1927 Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference in Geneva, and in 1942 Planned Parenthood Federation came into being.Her first marriage, to William Sanger in 1900, ended in divorce in 1920; she was remarried in 1922 to J. Noah H. Slee, though she kept her famous (or infamous) name.
Margaret Sanger worked as a nurse. Because she worked at a nursing home in NY, she was aware of the downfalls of unplanned pregnancies. After eleven children, Margaret’s mother’s health was in poor condition. This is what influenced her to spread the word about birth control, a term which Margaret was credited with inventing.
In 1912, Sanger gave up nursing work to dedicate herself to the distribution of birth control information. However, the Comstock Act of 1873 was used to forbid distribution of birth control devices and information. She wrote articles on health for the Socialist Party paper, the Call, and collected and published articles as What Every Girl Should Know (1916) and What Every Mother Should Know (1917).
In 1913 she founded a paper called “Women Rebel.” She was indicted for "mailing obscenities," fled to Europe, and the indictment was withdrawn. In 1914 she founded the National Birth Control League which was taken over by Mary Ware Dennett and others while Sanger was in Europe.
In 1916, Sanger set up the first birth control clinic in the United States, and the following year, she was sent to the workhouse for "creating a public nuisance." Her many arrests and prosecutions, helped lead to changes in laws giving doctors the right to give birth control advice to patients. In 1927 Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference in Geneva, and in 1942 Planned Parenthood Federation came into being.Her first marriage, to William Sanger in 1900, ended in divorce in 1920; she was remarried in 1922 to J. Noah H. Slee, though she kept her famous (or infamous) name.