Margaret Sanger

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“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body,” said Margaret Sanger. “No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.” Many people may not think Sanger is important or even know who she is, but there are many reasons why she is important in American history. She revolutionized women's health all over the world. Her family life played a tremendous role in her becoming a women’s rights activist. Sanger changed women’s rights in the 1900s and still has an impact on women’s rights today. Margaret Sanger impacted women’s health more than anyone in American history simply because she started the conversation about women’s rights.
As explained on the website of Sanger’s life, Margaret was born and raised in Corning, New York. She was the one of eleven children. Sanger’s mother died at a young age due to the cause of tuberculosis. Margaret attended school Claverack College in Hudson, New York, and then went to study nursing at the White Plains Hospital. Margaret left school to take care of her mother, which she suffered from tuberculosis. Tuberculosis was a disease that affected the lungs. Sangers mother later passed away from this. In 1912, she worked in New York City as a nurse for immigrants. She was scarred by the number of immigrants she saved while in the hospital. While there she saw venereal diseases and mishandled abortions. As Sanger spent her days in the hospital she saw many different diseases, one case really caught her attention. Her patient was not given birth control from her doctor, then died from an illegal abortion. Sanger then said she would commit to educating women on birth control. She then married William Sanger they had a child t...

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