Louisa Higgins Research Paper

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The city of Corning, New York gained one of the most influential advocates on September 14, 1879: the daughter of Bob Higgins and Anne Purcell Higgins. Little to Bob or Anne’s knowledge, Margaret Louisa Higgins, later known as Margaret Sanger, was destined to change the world of contraceptives for its present-day use: modern birth control. As the sixth child of eleven, Sanger grew up in poverty; with a socialist advocate for a father, and a recurrently pregnant mother constantly worn down from those pregnancies and later dying of tuberculosis. Although tuberculosis ultimately killed Sanger’s mother, Sanger believed that the frequent pregnancies of Anne burdened her mother and were the underlying cause of her relatively early death at the age

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