Margaret Sanger Eugenics

The family then moved back to the city and Sanger became a nurse. Their daughter would later die of pneumonia at a very young age due to horrible conditions at her boarding school. The two older sons would eventually grow to blame Sanger for her death and she would divorce her husband and maintain the company of several men after. Despite the number of suitors she acquires she will be single when she dies. While working as a nurse Sanger came across a woman by the name of Sadie Sachs (likely a compilation of many women) who became very ill after giving herself an abortion.

When Marie was only eight, her oldest sister died of typhus. Then, at age ten, her mother died of tuberculosis (Gingo 1). When she was fifteen years old, she was diagnosed with what is known today as depression, which doctors agreed was from the fatigue and stress she had been experiencing (Pasachoff 1). Later that year, she graduated from high school and sought out a college degree. Her older brother, Joseph, was able to attend the University of Warsaw, however she was not allowed to because female students were not admitted.

She has the forever-guilty conscience of being responsible for her own child’s death. Many mothers say, "I’ll regret it for the rest of my life. ""I feel like crawling into a hole and dying," says another mother after the operation.A common argument is that abortion isn’t murder because the baby isn’t alive. But on the contrary: life begins at conception. After only 18 days, the heart is formed, and after 20 the brain, spinal cord, and nervous system are developing.

The Darkest Child Literature Summary The story is told in first person through Tangy Mae Quinn, the darkest child of Rozelle Quinn. Rozelle is a light-skinned woman with ten children by ten different fathers, who separates her children based on skin color. She shows favoritism to her lighter skinned children and hatred to her darker skinned children. This is important because the story takes place in Parksfield, Georgia in the late 1950’s, right before the civil rights movement. It starts off with Rozelle Quinn teaching Tangy Mae how to clean her employer’s house because she believes she is going to die over the weekend.

She does not feel that her life is worth worrying about (126). Shortly after Dolores' high school graduation, Dolores' mother is killed when she is hit by a semi truck. Dolores blames herself and reasons that her mother's death must be Dolores' punishment for being a horrible daughter. She recalls what her mother said on the night of her death: "You've made me so ... tired" (135). She remembers how awful she was to her mother during the months before her death (138).

It is a women’s fundamental right to choose what happens with her own body. In many cases it is not her choice to become pregnant so why should she be forced to carry a child for nine months and then experience excruciating labor for hours to bring it into the world. With abortion being frowned upon so heavily now and pro-life supporters protesting abortion clinics many women still seek unsafe abortions to save their mental health. The stigma that has been placed on abortion leads to roughly 68,000 women dying from unsafe abortion a year (Haddad and Nawal). If women were not so put down for seeking out abortions there could be so many lives saved a year by safe practices.

It was at this time that Margaret Sanger, the eventual founder of Planned Parenthood, became involved in the radical movement for voluntary motherhood and the distribution of contraceptives (Hartmann). As a nurse she assisted poor women in giving birth, and saw the effect of having too many children on the welfare of these women. She also saw the suffering, pain, and death of many women who obtained unsafe, backdoor abortions to escape having more children (Shaw, Lee). Forbidden by the Comstock Laws, which “made it a crime to sell or distribute materials that could be used for contraception or abortion” (“Comstock Law of 1873”); Sanger could not share information on how to prevent pregnancy. In her article, My Fight For Birth Control, Sanger tells a story of a woman wanting to know how to prevent pregnancy.

There are no accurate statistics on how many women attempt or succeed in committing suicide each year rather than live with their pregnancies. Women will continue to have abortions with or without government legislation, but with legislation, the conditions under which they have their abortions can be sanctioned and observed. The role of family in abortion is that preservation of family has a profound impact on some women's decision whether or not to have an abortion. Some women have learned to protect and preserve each and every member of her family, including an unborn child. For these women abortion is not even a consideration, but many do live their lives harboring resent towards their husbands and the child for forcing her to have a child she did not necessarily want.

Thus Margaret and her siblings were constantly forced to care for themselves. Anna died at an early age to TB which Margaret attributed to her multiple pregnancies. It was then that she decided to become a nurse and start helping pregnant women. Working as a nurse in the ghettos of New York, Sanger became all too familiar with some horrible sights. She saw many women die of very preventable deaths due to child labor, and horrible methods of self-induced abortion.

Charlotte did not spend too much time with her mother and her two older sister because they had died while Charlotte was still young. "Her mother Maria died in 1821 by the cause of cancer. After her mothers death Elizabeth Branwell, Charlottes aunt took care of all six children"(Charlotte Brontë). "In 1824 Charlotte as well as Emily Joined their two older sister Maria and Elizabeth in the newly opened Clergy Daughter school, were they weren't treated in a respectful manner. They all suffered the harsh treatment by getting cold and poor food.