Margaret Sanger Women's Rights Movement

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APUSH Paper Margaret Sanger a women's rights activist took many steps to advance women's rights to a great extent from 1900 to 1936. Sanger was a member of feminist committees, educated women on sex, wrote many influential feminist publications, established the American Birth Control League, and the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control. In Margaret Sangers (Sanger) early life she worked as a nurse on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. As a nurse, Sanger experienced the effect of the lack of contraceptives on women especially in the lives of poor immigrant women . Many of these women because of unwanted pregnancy went to great lengths to prevent the continuation of their pregnancy including back alley abortions detrimental …show more content…

Second, for education attainment in young women being able to get the pill was found to be the most influential factor in enabling women to stay in school. Third, health outcomes, oral contraceptives were found to be associated with a reduced risk of ovarian and endometrial cancers(Planned Parenthood). Margaret Sanger had strength through adversity and opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. on October 16, 1916, in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, New York, even though she was faced with controversy (Esther), Sanger modeled her clinic after the birth control clinic she had visited in Holland. This is because Sanger hoped that the discussion of birth control in the United States would become an open discussion held with enthusiasm, and accepted by the upper class as it was in Holland. Sanger also learned that a more flexible diaphragm, carefully fitted by medically trained staff, was the most effective contraceptive device. This was an exceptional landmark in making use of contraceptives easier and more appealing to the …show more content…

This also shows the prejudice against Sanger because she was a woman, and promoting medication which would change the lives of women socially forever. Many people were afraid of the freedom that contraceptives would give to women. Sanger also established The American Birth Control League (ABCL) in 1921 in order to carry out her believes that every woman has the power and freedom to prevent conception (Moses ).The establishment of The American Birth Control League is a significant turning point in Sanger's mission to provide women with birth control because the ABCL would presage the largest nonprofit organization which provides advice on contraception, family planning, and reproductive problems the modern-day Planned Parenthood. Sanger eventually resigned as president of the (ABCL) and founded The National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control (NCFLBC) in 1929 enable to further her cause through legal tactics (New York University). The committee was founded in able to make it legal for doctors to freely distribute birth control. The National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control was crucial because without the action of federal legislation the absence of availability of birth control for women would remain

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