In her early life Sanger came from a home of two parents, Anna P. Higgins and Michael H. Higgins, and eleven siblings. According to Peter Bagge in the book, Women Rebel, he reveals in the Who’s Who and What’s What page “Anne Higgins had eighteen pregnancies...She gave birth to eleven children, ten of whom survived to adulthood (a very good battling average for their time)…All children were born at home with just their father assisting in their births”. Making this comment, Bagge evidently shows that it was common for women to give birth to multiple babies. In fact many women, specifically middle class and poor, had no knowledge on how to safely prevent pregnancies. After losing her mother, Sanger became well aware that women had no choice but
