Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger Running head : MARGARET SANGER Margaret Sanger : Birth Control Movement of 1912 Introduction

Margaret Louise Higgins was born on September 14 , 1879 in Corning , New York She was the sixth of the eleven children . She believed her mothers death was premature due to the many children she had which she had no control over .She attended Claverack College and Hudson River Institute in 1896 .She began the nursing program at White Plains Hospital in 1900 . She started to get involved in issues of birth control by the heavy impact her

mothers death had on her . She married William Sanger and had three kids . She was a member of the Women 's Committee of the NY Socialist Party . She was very active in the community . She was a highly influential person known for starting the birth control movement and in other aspects of a woman 's health . I have chosen her for her compassion and sincerity to her work as a nurse Role of nursing and her professionalism

Margaret Sanger 's working career as a nurse was focused on sex education and women 's health . She wrote many s and articles to educate people all around . For example , in 1912 she wrote a column on sex education for the New York Call entitled "What Every Girl Should Know " At that time , this kind of information was not to be spoken about in the open and needed to be censored . She felt it was her right to tell the world of increasing problems with childbirth . She worked frequently on one side of New York where many of the population was poor and the women suffered the pain of frequent childbirth , miscarriage and abortion . She started working for the idea that women need to control their lives more from unwanted pregnancies (birth control 2006 The first birth control clinic opened in the U .S . by Sanger on October 16 , 1916 in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn , New York as noted in article (Malveaux 2001 . Her sister Ethel Byrne , a nurse herself , and Fania Mindell , an interpreter from Chicago , rented a small place and handed out flyers of the stating about the clinic in few different languages . They sold the pamphlet that Sanger had written called What Every Girl Should Know , which was about the female reproductive system , and instructions on the use of various contraceptives . A few times Sanger was arrested was aiding in women for such causes (NYU 1985

Sanger (1924 ) wrote , Everywhere we look , we see poverty and large families going hand in hand . We see hordes of children whose parents cannot feed , clothe , or educate even one half of the number born to them . We see sick , harassed , broken mothers whose health and nerves cannot bear the strain of further child-bearing . We see fathers growing despondent and desperate , because their labor cannot bring the necessary wage to keep their growing families . We see that those parents who are least fit to reproduce the race are having the largest...