https://padlet.com/ybatchtl/abuc8rxg0ybqwndt An analysis of Margaret Sanger en-us 2023-04-22 16:12:45 UTC 2026-03-08 23:06:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/2012906584/e172d2824a7922fec7537a487a2eb332/merlin_174917709_758689de_793c_4864_baff_5c962a0ed7f5_superJumbo.webp ybatchtl https://padlet.com/ybatchtl/abuc8rxg0ybqwndt/wish/2564286977 2023-04-22 16:31:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ybatchtl/abuc8rxg0ybqwndt/wish/2564286977 ybatchtl https://padlet.com/ybatchtl/abuc8rxg0ybqwndt/wish/2564289015  Margaret Sanger was an American birth control activist, sex educator, nurse, and writer. She popularized the term "birth control" and happened to be the person to open the first birth control clinic in the United States and founded organizations that evolved into what we know as today as the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.]]> 2023-04-22 16:36:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ybatchtl/abuc8rxg0ybqwndt/wish/2564289015 ybatchtl https://padlet.com/ybatchtl/abuc8rxg0ybqwndt/wish/2564296156 Margaret Sanger’s life was shaped by the poverty of her childhood and the death of her mother at age 50, which she understood had resulted from the physical toll of eleven pregnancies her mother endured. Born on September 14, 1879, in Corning, New York, Margaret was the sixth of eleven children born in her family. Margaret Sanger later became a nurse, attending Claverack College and the Hudson River Institute in 1896 and finished the nursing program at White Plains Hospital in 1902. Within that same year, she married her first husband, William Sanger, and moved to Hastings, New York. (Michals)]]> 2023-04-22 16:58:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ybatchtl/abuc8rxg0ybqwndt/wish/2564296156 ybatchtl https://padlet.com/ybatchtl/abuc8rxg0ybqwndt/wish/2564299671 Margaret Sanger truly impacted women's sexual rights and helped stopped unwanted pregnancies worldwide. This created less stress and deaths among women from constantly getting impregnated and stopped fewer illegal abortions from perusing. The creation of the modern Birth Control Pill made it so women finally had a say in what they wanted to do with their bodies. They could finally have the choice if they did not want to have a kid right as they got married. The modern birth control pill also provided aid for medical conditions for teens and young women who needed their hormones regulated and other problems in order to live their lives to the fullest. According to Youngwomenshealth.org, "Teens and young adults have often been prescribed birth control pills for irregular or absent menstrual periods, menstrual cramps, acne, premenstrual syndrome (PMS), endometriosis, primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS). Teens diagnosed with PCOS are often prescribed oral contraceptives to lower their hormone levels and regulate their menstrual periods." Without Margaret Sanger and her need to advocate for women's sexual rights, there would be fewer happier women in the world now, and probably fewer.]]> 2023-04-22 17:06:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ybatchtl/abuc8rxg0ybqwndt/wish/2564299671 ybatchtl https://padlet.com/ybatchtl/abuc8rxg0ybqwndt/wish/2564300036 Margaret Sanger strongly believed that controlling family size was crucial to ending the cycle of women’s poverty. However, it was illegal to distribute birth control information. Working as a visiting nurse, she frequented the homes of poor immigrants, often with large families and wives whose health was impaired by too many pregnancies, miscarriages, or in desperation, botched illegal abortions. Often, immigrant wives would ask her to tell them “The secret,” presuming that educated white women like Sanger knew how to limit family size. Sanger made it her mission to 1) provide women with birth control information and 2) repeal the federal Comstock Law, which prohibited the distribution of obscene materials through the mail and regarded birth control information as such. (Michals)]]> 2023-04-22 17:07:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ybatchtl/abuc8rxg0ybqwndt/wish/2564300036 ybatchtl https://padlet.com/ybatchtl/abuc8rxg0ybqwndt/wish/2564308432 2023-04-22 17:35:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ybatchtl/abuc8rxg0ybqwndt/wish/2564308432 ybatchtl https://padlet.com/ybatchtl/abuc8rxg0ybqwndt/wish/2564313435 Margaret Sanger left nursing in 1912 to devote herself to the cause of birth control and sex education, publishing a series of essays on the subject, including "What Every Girl Should Know" for the New York Call. In 1914, she published The Woman Rebel, a short-lived magazine, and distributed a Family Limitation booklet supporting her views. She was charged with mailing pro-birth control materials, but the charges were dropped in 1916. Later that year, in Brooklyn, she founded the first birth control clinic in the United States. She was taken into custody and accused with causing a "public nuisance." She spent 30 days at the Queen's Penitentiary in 1917. The first issue of her monthly, The Birth Control Review, was published while she was in prison. Her sentencing and episodes of legal harassment helped to change the public's outlook in favor of the birth control movement. Sanger’s legal appeals prompted the federal courts first to allow doctors the right to advise about birth control methods and then, in 1936, to reinterpret the Comstock Act of 1873. (Britannica)]]> 2023-04-22 17:51:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ybatchtl/abuc8rxg0ybqwndt/wish/2564313435 ybatchtl https://padlet.com/ybatchtl/abuc8rxg0ybqwndt/wish/2564320341 Margaret Sanger expanded her international efforts in Asian countries like Japan and India during the 1920s and 1930s. Sanger retired in 1942 and moved to Tucson, Arizona, where she strongly supported birth control. Sanger hired researcher Gregory Pincus to develop an oral contraceptive in the late 1950s, with financing from International Harvester heiress Katharine McCormick. The Food and Drug Administration approved the "pill" in 1960. Margaret Sanger passed away in 1966, six years after the authorization of the birth control pill, at the age of 86. (Michals)]]> 2023-04-22 18:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ybatchtl/abuc8rxg0ybqwndt/wish/2564320341 ybatchtl https://padlet.com/ybatchtl/abuc8rxg0ybqwndt/wish/2564325495 In creation of the modern Birth control pill Margaret Sanger also opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that would later turn into what we know today as Planned Parenthood.]]> 2023-04-22 18:35:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ybatchtl/abuc8rxg0ybqwndt/wish/2564325495