Birth Control By Catherine Dexter

It was important for Katharine Dexter because she was married to a man with schizophrenia and since there’s a chance that the kids have this mental illness too, even though there wasn’t a physical connection between her and her husband, but since she knew there were people out there that were at risk, she wanted to help them. Also she wanted women have control over their bodies and so they can prevent unplanned pregnancy.
For Margaret Sanger, after the death of Sadie Sachs, she was so sad and mad and she knew that she couldn’t continue like this, she needed to find a way to help mothers from having too many children and so risking their lives. She knew that it was dangerous for them to have too many kids, especially when they don’t want to, …show more content…
She wanted women have kids as many as they want, mostly one or two, and in a situation that they can take care of those kids and not having too many kids while you’re poor.
2: Birth control is a great idea. Women everywhere should have the right of their own bodies. To be fair babies are not for everyone. A lot of women weren’t born mothers and that’s totally ok and they know it and so they want to prevent an unexpected baby, so they should have that right. Or some women, they are mothers and they have kids, but they don’t want anymore, so they should have the right to control that. Or even in case of women who wants to be mothers, but right now they’re not in a situation to become one, they should have the right and ability to control that.
3: The American ideal picture was families with a lot of kids, where everyone were happy, so when women start asking for birth control, the government and some people were afraid that the perfect image is going to become destroyed. They were afraid that women stop having babies. They were also worried that if women start having birth control, then that means they’re going to have sex outside of marriage without the consequences of becoming pregnant, and that was a horrible sin and so they were against birth …show more content…
First of all at the beginning, when they started to test the pills on humans for the first time, they didn’t test it on white women, it was on women of color or women in asylums. Also after birth control was legal, for controlling menstruation, it was expensive and so women from poor families, especially women of colors, it was really hard for them to pay for that. So once again it was mostly for upper and middle class white women.
6: For sure some men weren’t really happy about this. Probably a lot of dads were worried that means their daughters is going to have sex outside of marriage, but at the same time, probably there was men who were agree with this idea because they wanted to help and save their wives, daughters, sisters, etc. also since men had more political power than women, it was easier for them to say what was in their mind than for women.
7: There are still people who think if a woman is using birth control it means she just wants to have sex without getting pregnant, also there’s still lack of education about birth control. A lot of people still don’t know, what is birth control, how is it work, and also its not just for preventing pregnancy, there’s other benefits to it too. In a lot of countries women are still dying, just because they had too many children or they were too young or old to have a child and they didn’t know, that they needed to use birth