Essay On Margaret Sanger

Did women in the 1920’s have control of fertility? Were women able to have birth control and plan for a family? No, Women in the 1920’s did not have control of fertility or family planning and birth control. However, a woman named Margaret Sanger fought for control of fertility for the women in the 1920’s. Therefore women today have the control of fertility because of Margaret Sanger and are being taught the importance of family planning and birth control.

Margaret Higgins Sanger was born in Corning, New York on September 14, 1883. Margaret was six of eleven children. Her mother died from cervical cancer at a young age. Margaret attended Claverack College then enrolled in nursing school in White Plains, New York. Margaret then meet and

Ben Carson proclaimed that Sanger “believed that people like me should be eliminated” —later clarifying, per PolitiFact, that he was “talking about the black race”—and in 2011, Herman Cain alleged that Sanger’s original goal for Planned Parenthood was to “help kill black babies before they came into the world.”(Latson). Some historians and scholars examined Sanger’s correspondence and challenged those who call a racist activist. In 1939 Sanger outlined her plan to reach out to black leaders — specifically ministers — to help dispel community suspicions about the family planning clinics she was opening in the South.(Latson). However, Planned Parenthood officials are quick to note that, despite her thoughts on the idea in general, Sanger “uniformly repudiated the racist exploitation of eugenics principles.”(Latson).But in 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. made it clear that he agreed with Sanger’s life’s work and that it was anything but inhumane. King later received the Planned Parenthood

She started a birth control campaign and sent a letter to Havelock Ellis.(Simkin). On Oct 16, 1916 Sanger helped her friend open a family planning and birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn (Simkin). The Clinic was raided nine days later opening and she served 30 days in prison. In 1917 she published “ What Every Mother Know”. Also, In 1921 Sanger founded American Birth Control League.(Simkin). She also published two more books called “Motherhood in Bondage” in 1928 and “My Fight for Birth Control” in 1931. Sanger assisted in organizing the first World Population Conference.( Simkin). In the spring. she began inviting advocates, physicians, and scientists from around the world to a conference in October. She returned to England to drum up interest and secure support for the conference(Latson). The “drawback to these gatherings was that the scientists and other dignified professionals who attended loathed any nuts-and-bolts discussion of sexuality and contraception, finding such talk better suited to the doctor’s office.(Sanger). As a result, these early conferences failed to advance a better understanding of the physiological