The Need For Birth Control Margaret Sanger Summary

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Margaret Sanger (1883-1966) was arguably the best-known figure in the crusade for the legalization of contraceptives. Not only did she open the nation’s first parent planning facility in 1916, but she organized the American Birth Control League, which later became known as Planned Parenthood. Sanger wrote “The Need For Birth Control” with the intention of convincing the citizens of the United States that birth control, a term that was coined in 1915, was not an attack on the Catholic