Persuasive Essay On Birth Control

“The year 1979 marked the centennial of Margaret Sanger. Birth control

pioneer. Sanger worked to secure two new human rights: the right to decide

weather to have a child and the right of a child to be wanted ( Wardell, Dorthy, Birth

Control’s Successful Revolutionary )

Million’s of women today, all over the world, take a little pill called birth

control. It is the most common pill taken in today’s society. This little pill allows

women not to get pregnant. Women in today’s society have the luxury to take birth

control. While only a couple of years ago, taking the pill, or even talking about, any

from of birth control, was concerned to be illegal. If a female were to even mention

the world birth control they would land themselves in jail.

Not having any from of birth control, lead to many women having multiple

pregnancies. So many women had pregnancies late in life. That it sadly lead to many

women passing away, from having so many children. Medical professionals did not

understand what was happening to these women. Margret Sanger believed that

“Women must be protected from incessant childbearing become she can actively

participate in the social life. She must triumph over Nature and Man law, which have

kept her in bondage. Just as man has triumphed over Nature by the use of

electrically, shipbuilding, bridges, etc., so must women triumph over the laws which

have made her a childbearing machine”. (Peiss Kathy, Major Problems in the History

of American Sexuality)

Around this time women knew nothing about there bodies. There was no

birth control and the only way to prevent pregnancies was to use a condom. This all

changed, and the way the world is today changed all because of one women.

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...r would continue to fight what the rights of women conception. She

believed that “Birth control has liberated many women and men from the burdens

of unplanned parenthood. In the sense it can be called liberal reform” ( Y.K. )

Margret Sanger fought hard for this cause. If it were not for her hard work and

dedication there would not be a pill today. Margot Sanger died before she ever got a

change to see her work take its full effect.

The fight for women right to contraception did not stop when it all become

legal. “ Women have fought for centuries in the United States to secure and maintain

reproductive rights. Yet few understand the rhetorical history paved the way for

women to access a public space to speak on the once taboo topic of birth control”

(Bone Jennifer Emerling When Public Collide). The fight is still very much going on

today in 2013.