Summary Of My Fight For Birth Control By Margaret Sanger

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In the book of America FirstHand, Article 22, My Fight For Birth Control by Margaret Sanger, Sanger explains how difficult it is for poor women to have access to contraceptives in the year of 1912. In the east side of New York, women seem to be miserable. She describes women as slinking in and out of their homes on the way to the market like rats from their holes.
In this side of New York women have a harsh way of living since they get beat by their husbands and have control of the amount of children they have.
Abortion was a common topic within the women that live in these neighborhoods. Women would often visit offices where this procedure was done for an inexpensive cost, but was highly dangerous for their health. In some occasions women

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