Margaret Sanger Analysis

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Margaret Sanger was the founder of The American League of Birth Control which later became Planned Parenthood and her argument in those times was that it was not fair for women who were from a lower class could not have access to Birth Control. She argued and fought for all women to have access and with it freedom to choose when and or if they wanted to be mothers. Sanger was the oldest child of a numerous family. She had to watch the helplessness of her own mother who continued to have children without any Control and thus dying as a result. This affected Sanger and it help shape her fight against the lack of access and information. One can see as a result of her fight and her persistent distribution of Birth Control how determined she was to help women have control in their lives. Sanger didn't necessarily fight just for the sake of women to have access to Birth Control but she also fought for equality. It is unfair that only wealthy women could decide how many children they will have when the poor women were the ones who were in trouble of not being able to provide for all of the …show more content…

This primary source raises an important question nowadays we now have access to Birth Control and women still have many children because they get government help but is it really necessary to have more than four children? It is a very controversial topic but at least now it's a choice and it only affects ignorant teenagers who often have sex or “petting” and get pregnant and have no idea how to take care of a child or the precautions to not have a baby and have safe sex Nonetheless Margaret Sanger is a true fighter for women's rights and I admire that. As a woman who is focusing on her career it will be devastating if I were not to have access to Birth Control and have a sense of when I would want to have

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