Challenges and Obstacles Margaret Sanger lived in an era where contraceptives were illegal. This made her ideas and beliefs very challenging. As stated earlier, she was a child of eleven, but that wasn’t the actual number of pregnancies that her mother faced. Her mother also had four miscarriages for a total of fifteen pregnancies. At the age of twenty-one, she had to overcome the passing of her mother far too soon due tuberculosis. Sanger blamed her father for the death of her mother because he forced her into sexual activity which led to her pregnancies and her becoming so frail she lost the battle to the disease (Eig, 2014). Overcoming the death of her mother was one of the obstacles that lit the fire to start pushing her ideas for her pro-choice campaign. …show more content…
Sadie Sachs was a poor Jewish woman who was married to a man with only a part time job and three children. Sanger was called to the home of the Sachs because Mrs. Sachs had given herself an at home abortion causing a massive hemorrhage. Mrs. Sachs asked Sanger how she could prevent becoming pregnant, so Sanger asked the physician who attended with her. The physician replied with “make Mr. Sachs sleep on the roof.” (McPherson, 1984) Sanger was infuriated by this statement. A few weeks later, Sanger was called back to the Sachs’ residence for a “five dollar professional abortionist” (McPherson,1984). Sanger and the physician were unsuccessful in keeping Mrs. Sachs alive this time. This is what drove her to find a way to educate women on what they could do to prevent pregnancies by using contraceptives. Sanger decided to give up her nursing career to start making a difference and become an activist in the movement of birth control (McPherson,