Margaret Sanger's Accomplishments

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Margaret Sanger was an early pioneer of sex education, birth control legalization, and a women's rights activist. Faced with many challenges and obstacles, Sanger was able to accomplish and establish the foundations for the first birth control movement in the United States. The following paragraphs of this research paper gather information about her life, analyze her accomplishments, and discuss the obstacles in her life.Margaret Sanger, born Margaret Higgins was the sixth of the eleven children born to Michael and Anne Higgins. She was born on September 14, 1879 in Corning New York. Sanger’s parent immigrated to the United States from Ireland during the potato famine. Living in poverty, she was “ridiculed by other school children for wearing …show more content…
At White Plains Hospital Sanger graduated as a “nurse probationer in 1900” (Esther). Continuing her education, Sanger working as a practical nurse to become a registered nurse. In 1902, her education got cut short when she married an Architect named William Sanger. Together, the were able to have three children, two sons and one daughter even though she was plagued with tuberculosis. The couple moved to the New York City where she served immigrants in the “extremely poor conditions in the slums of its Lower East Side” (Bachrach). While working with the poor immigrant women who were suffering with illnesses from abortions and repeated pregnancies and miscarriages due to lack of available information on how to avoid unwanted pregnancies and no access to contraceptives, “transformed her into a social radical” (Bachrach). Eventually, Sanger joined a Socialist Party, beginning her journey to eradicate the Comstock Act of 1873, which prohibited contraceptives and defining them as “obscence and illicit, making it a federal offense to disseminate birth control” (“Anthony Comstock’s “Chastity” Laws”,
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