Margaret Sanger The Morality Of Birth Control Summary

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The speech being analyzed is Sanger’s “The Morality of Birth Control”. The question being analyzed is “was Sanger justified in pursuing women’s rights, or was she doing it mostly for fame?” The point being argued for is that she was doing it just because she wanted the world to be a better place and she would do whatever it took to help the cause. If this is true then both her writing and her action strategies should reflect this belief.
First in order to determine if she was doing it for a cause greater than herself one must study Sanger herself to determine if she had a reason to fight for women’s rights as hard as she did. Margaret Sanger was a married woman which means that Sanger was not always her last name. Her maiden name was Margaret Louise Higgins and she was born on the fifteenth of September in 1879 in Corning, New York (Smith College). She was the sixth child in the family which was not wealthy by any means. She was educated and …show more content…

After a year of writing small articles for news sources that would accept her content she became noticed by her opposition and had many of her articles taken down due to the Comstock act of 1873. After having her writings and efforts to give out information suppressed she decided to end her nursing career and become a full time women’s rights activist. Shortly after, she separated with her husband and decided to get information and birth control devices from outside the country and to do so she traveled to Europe and researched as much as she could. After she returned she published more information but unlike before she had become well versed in birth control methods as well as sexual hygiene and she was more aggressive towards the Comstock laws. As a result her new works attracted even more attention and she was pursued by the government with even more

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