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In the 1920s people couldn’t even put out information about birth control, now it is required to be taught to students ages 12 and up. Sometimes putting out the information isn’t enough for society, so they distribute birth control to teenagers without asking for parental consent. But without Margaret’s fight to make birth control available to women we wouldn’t even be able to inform students about it .Margaret Sanger believes birth control should be legalized for married women.

Margaret Sanger believed women should have the right to decide what they can and can’t do with their bodies. Margaret watched her mother die at a young age, after raising 11 children. “The turning point in her life came when one of her patients, who had been refused contraceptive information by her doctor, died as a result of the birth of her fifth child” (Margaret Sanger). This one example opened Margaret’s eyes and made her start fighting for the right to have birth control. (Intro of 2nd Quote). “Moral and Sexual balance in civilization will only be established by the assertion and expression of power on the part of a woman” (Margaret Sanger Promotes Birth Control...). (Explanation about 2nd Quote). According to Sanger, “[A]woman’s power can only be expressed and make itself felt when she refuses the task of bringing unwanted children into the world to be exploited in industry and slaughtered in wars” (Margaret Sanger Promotes Birth Control…). Basically she is saying it is a very bad idea for women to bring a child into a cruel and unforgiving world, especially when they are not wanted on this planet in the first place. (Closing).

Not only was Sanger’s speech compelling, it was also revolutionary at this time in history. Until she witnessed deaths of ...

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...lded this way or that” (Margaret Sanger Promotes Birth Control…). Women are not toys men can’t just expect them to do what they tell them to, and if you think that you are wrong. People thought it was okay to treat women like objects and Margaret clearly disagreed with that. “We are alive and intelligent, we are women no less than men, and we must awaken to the essential realization that we are living beings…” (Margaret Sanger Promotes Birth Control..). In making this comment, Margaret urges women to open their eyes and realise they have value. That they should have the right to decide what they want to with their live and their unborn children. Margaret Sanger is a credible source not just because she has spent her whole life researching and fighting to make birth control legal, but because she has life changing experiences that influenced her speech to be created.

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