How Did Margaret Sanger Influence The Women's Rights Movement

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"No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother,” Margaret said in March of 1919. Many say that Sanger’s accomplishments in legalizing birth control stemmed from her childhood, as she was born to be one of eleven children in her family in 1879. Margaret's mother had multiple miscarriages, losing her life at 40. Margaret claims all of the pregnancies her mother went through took a toll on her body ending her life too soon. Margaret dedicated her life to be able to prevent women from having to go through a pregnancy that was unwanted (Margaret Sanger Biography). Sanger’s accomplishments inspired the Women's rights movement of the 1920’s.
The Women’s rights movement began decades before the Civil war with ideas of equality to men. In 1848 a group of nearly 200 abolitionists both men and women gathered in Seneca Falls New York, this was a “Convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of women” (“Seneca Falls Convention begins”). After the Seneca …show more content…
These publications resulted in her having to flee the country due to the Comstock Act of 1873, which prohibited the trade and circulation of "obscene and immoral materials." Instead of having a five-year sentence, she fled to England where she furthered her studies freely and found different forms of birth control and diaphragms that she later smuggled back into the United States. She returned in October of 1915, and by 1916 she began touring the states while promoting birth control and opened her first clinic in the United States. Nine days later she was arrested during the raid of the Brooklyn clinic and she spent thirty days in jail. Later in 1921 Sanger established the American Birth Control League, which still exists today as the Planned Parenthood Federation of America where she served as president until 1928 (Margaret Sanger
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