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 down upon, her ability to use her skills to publish her opinions even if meant to go against the law, and her ability to found and create clinics that change the world; these three things are what I think prove that Sanger was the main cause of women being able to choose the size of their family and the choice of fertility. Sanger became a nuisance to the culture of the United States when she inflicted upon the Catholic Church, the United States judiciary, and the Marxist party her opinions.
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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 children.”() Lastly the Marxist party had different objections over Sanger’s movement then the Catholic Church or U.S. Judiciary. These objections were not upon a moral, religious, or lawful ground like the other two opposing groups. The Marxist opposition on birth control stemmed from population. The party thought Sanger’s movement was like the Malthusian principals (). This threatened the Marxists’ because he party found that population control in a socialist country wasn’t necessary. They thought that Sanger was going to ruin the balance of the population which the Marxist party thought was immoral. Despite the horrible things these groups would say on top of a “public nuisance”. Mrs. Sanger stayed strong and these three groups gave her power to become even more dedicated to her goal of legalizing and having accessible birth control. Sanger fought and in the end results the two groups groups led to conceding with Sangers movement which led for more of the accept the movement of birth control, and the women’s right of choice. The Marxist party on the other hand led to extinction. In 1913, Sanger launced a paper called the Woman Rebel which was dedicated to the interests of mostly poor or immigrant working women. She soon discovered that one of the greatest problems for these working women was their own fertility. No matter what kind of benefits they may have gotten from their bosses, it was common for these women to keep their fertltly a secret . To Sangers discovery she added her experiences in her paper. She wrote about her experiences as a public health
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 children.”() Lastly the Marxist party had different objections over Sanger’s movement then the Catholic Church or U.S. Judiciary. These objections were not upon a moral, religious, or lawful ground like the other two opposing groups. The Marxist opposition on birth control stemmed from population. The party thought Sanger’s movement was like the Malthusian principals (). This threatened the Marxists’ because he party found that population control in a socialist country wasn’t necessary. They thought that Sanger was going to ruin the balance of the population which the Marxist party thought was immoral. Despite the horrible things these groups would say on top of a “public nuisance”. Mrs. Sanger stayed strong and these three groups gave her power to become even more dedicated to her goal of legalizing and having accessible birth control. Sanger fought and in the end results the two groups groups led to conceding with Sangers movement which led for more of the accept the movement of birth control, and the women’s right of choice. The Marxist party on the other hand led to extinction. In 1913, Sanger launced a paper called the Woman Rebel which was dedicated to the interests of mostly poor or immigrant working women. She soon discovered that one of the greatest problems for these working women was their own fertility. No matter what kind of benefits they may have gotten from their bosses, it was common for these women to keep their fertltly a secret . To Sangers discovery she added her experiences in her paper. She wrote about her experiences as a public health