Margaret Sanger: Women's Equality Day

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Aimee Nadeau
Lynn Swearingen
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Margaret Sanger Biography/Nomination Letter
December 4, 2016
Margaret Sanger for Women’s Equality Day
Margaret Sanger should be nominated for “Women’s Equality Day” because she devoted most of her life towards fighting for women to have the right to control and make decisions about their own body. Due to her background and upbringing, Margaret Sanger (Sanger) was passionate about women’s right to control their body and fought for women to have the right to utilize safe contraceptives to control whether or not they wanted to become pregnant and have children. Along with other individuals, Sanger, discovered the first birth control pill, Enovid, to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). …show more content…

She was arrested for nine days after opening the clinic. She was arrested because she broke The Comstock Law by informing women of birth control and fitting them for diaphragms (Margaret Sanger). After about a month of being incarcerated, Sanger appealed her conviction and lost. What she did gain out of that though, was The Comstock Law was revised by the Supreme Court. It was revised to allow medical professionals to prescribe birth control to women for medical reasons (Margaret Sanger). After Sanger was released, she released another publication The Birth Control Review and founded the American Birth Control League in 1921 and ran it until 1928 (The Pill). The American Birth Control League was a precursor to Planned Parenthood that most people are familiar with …show more content…

She stated “every child should be a wanted child” (Margaret Sanger). Sanger devoted almost her whole life for these rights. Before she died in 1966, she was, however, able to witness the undoing of the Comstock Laws and was able to see the victory in Griswold v. Connecticut, which ruled that the private use of contraceptives was a constitutional right (The Pill). This must have justified all of the hard work she put in throughout her life. A woman who was willing to put forth this much effort for the constitutional rights of other women, should be nominated for “Women’s Equality Day”. She fought for something that she was lucky enough to witness the success of, but would not receive the benefits of herself. Someone who is willing to do this much for other women’s rights, deserves to be nominated and recognized on such an important

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