Margaret Sanger was born on September 14th, 1879 in New York and died in 1966 at age 86. Margaret was a nurse sex educator, and a birth control activist, after being inspired by her mother had 18 pregnancies in 22 years. In 1914 after witnessing many unwanted pregnancies and some self-induced abortions she started her first monthly newsletter called The Women Rebel. Margaret was a rebel herself, constantly breaking rules to get her point across. She was famous for opening the very first birth control clinic and she founded the American Birth Control League.
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Here is Margaret Sanger being "gagged" and photographed to make a statement about how laws have permitted her to talk.
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“No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.” -- Margaret Sanger
"The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." -- Margaret Sanger"
"The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." -- Margaret Sanger"