The Slaughter of the Innocence
“Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers, and before it can be his, it is hers alone. She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a baby is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it”(Sanger). Margaret Sanger believed that women should have the ability to think for themselves and choose what do with their body. Margaret Sanger was known as an American Birth Control activist, feminist, an advocate of eugenics, and the creator of Planned Parenthood.…show more content… However, to achieve her goal she had to go through a lot of hardship such as going against the Catholic Church. They had a completely different view on rights women had for example, “There is nothing in the church code morals to protect the women, either to unwilling submission to the wishes of her husband.. Nothing is said about the crime of bringing an unwanted child into the world..often it cannot be adequately taken care for.. Therefore condemned to a life of misery”(Sanger). This shows how women were just treated as object that men could just fool around with and were only useful to mean to make children. When the church began to have more political power, the Catholic decided they needed a higher birth rate to help them contribute to their organization. “From the 1920s until the early 1960s, Margaret Sanger was usually in the middle of this debate, countering Catholic pronouncement on the immortality of birth control and baiting the church into creating public controversies that ultimately advertised her cause”(Engelman, Catholic). Due to acknowledgement of birth control she only knew that the church would help her encounter woman to take this as a second option to prevent pregnancies. “In November 1921, Catholic Archbishop Patrick Hayes exerted his influence over the city government and convinced the police to shut down the concluding session of the First
