Margaret Sanger was a huge contributor to making birth control a necessity today. In the last 100 years things have been much different. 100 years ago a ‘natural’ family size would be 11-18 children per women. This rapid and social change can be traced back to the life work of Margaret Sanger. Sanger used her own strategies, by becoming a public nuisance, by interfering with the Catholic Church, the United States judiciary, and the Marxist party. Sangers also became politically active and used her writing skills to create writings to promote her way of thinking. Lastly Sangers created, and founded clinics that would change US forever. Sangers ability to pursue her dreams of women having the right to decided on birthing even if she was looked
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Sanger battled with these groups. Not only in the courts of law but also of public opinion. While it was obvious that all three groups opposed of Margaret Sanger’s actions, each of them opposed in their own diverse way. Each attempted to harm the good reputation of Sanger on the fact that her movement at the very least was a public nuisance.
The Catholic Church was Sangers most aggressive and relentless enemy. Carole McCann writes “as early as 1914, the National Council of Catholic Women pledged to fight any efforts made anywhere in the United States to repeal laws prohibiting the “addiction” and “sin” of birth control.” (McCann) Then an author cited form a National Catholic pamphlet ““a prostitute out of the wife and an adulterer out of the husband.” (Chesler)
The United State Judiciary opposed Sangers opinion on birth control and found her a nuisance because of her many illegal actions she had done. Like violating the Comstock. Sanger never claimed she was innocent for any of her eight offenses that she was charged for, but rather, she retaliated that the existing laws, were wrong. This made the US judiciary outraged. A reporter of the US judiciary reported, “Your crime is not only a violation of the laws of man, but of God as well, in your scheme to prevent motherhood. Some women are so selfish that they do not want to be bothered with
Sanger battled with these groups. Not only in the courts of law but also of public opinion. While it was obvious that all three groups opposed of Margaret Sanger’s actions, each of them opposed in their own diverse way. Each attempted to harm the good reputation of Sanger on the fact that her movement at the very least was a public nuisance.
The Catholic Church was Sangers most aggressive and relentless enemy. Carole McCann writes “as early as 1914, the National Council of Catholic Women pledged to fight any efforts made anywhere in the United States to repeal laws prohibiting the “addiction” and “sin” of birth control.” (McCann) Then an author cited form a National Catholic pamphlet ““a prostitute out of the wife and an adulterer out of the husband.” (Chesler)
The United State Judiciary opposed Sangers opinion on birth control and found her a nuisance because of her many illegal actions she had done. Like violating the Comstock. Sanger never claimed she was innocent for any of her eight offenses that she was charged for, but rather, she retaliated that the existing laws, were wrong. This made the US judiciary outraged. A reporter of the US judiciary reported, “Your crime is not only a violation of the laws of man, but of God as well, in your scheme to prevent motherhood. Some women are so selfish that they do not want to be bothered with