Analysis Of Margaret Sanger's Planned Parenthood

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Margaret Sanger, who was she, I know the name does not seem to ring a bell too you, but if you are a woman who has faith for the rights to have access to birth control, you should get to know this rebel leader. This brave woman was one of the most prominent leaders for all women universally, the creator of birth control and the founder of Planned Parenthood. One of her most controversial quotes was “that the most merciful thing that a large family can do to one of its infants is to simply end its life” (Flaherty 26). The statement is simple but in many ways it has received a number of different responses from the people. What then is the impact of her ideas? Is it that Margaret Sanger is trying to open the eyes of the large families and the …show more content…

Consequently, Margaret Sanger wanted to justify to push for the adaptation of birth control throughout her whole life; because there is the general feeling that her mother would have lived longer if it were not for the continual child bearing. To get over the loss of her mother she enrolled in a hospital in New York to nurse the poverty back to health. While she was working day in and day out she would see women sick and leaving destitute by habitual pregnancies. She also saw stricken families that were trapped in scarceness from being paid too low and not even having enough to feed their six children. By the time most of the women that came to Margaret for help it was too late for them. This is when Margaret came to a realization that families need information on birth control and on …show more content…

The act stated... devices, publications and medications or mailing that was anyway related to contraception or abortion or any obscene materials was a crime and would be guaranteed to a trial by jury and if found guilty sentenced to prison. Since Margaret was a feminist and an activist she wrote a publication called The Woman Rebel which stimulated the woman’s right to have birth control. The magazine led her straight into trouble with the law but instead of facing a lengthy time period in jail she was let off the hook and she escaped to England. This is where she conducted more research on other types of birth control and one of these ideas were diaphragms which she eventually smuggled back to the