Melissa Lakatos
Assignment #2
SPH 380
Family Planning
The refinement of family planning has been one of the most pivotal public health achievements in today’s history. Did you know that between 1800 and 1900, family size declined from 7 to 3.5 children with the help of education and contraceptives? Previous to birth control movements, distributing information and counseling patients regarding any type of birth control was illegal under federal and state laws. During this time period, there was little wide spread knowledge about many medical conveniences including time of ovulation, fertility period as well as various other reproductive facts (Achievements in Public Health, 1999). But now, this information has all become modern medicine …show more content…
Margaret was one of eleven children total who witnessed her mothers many miscarriages and early death. Margaret attributes her early passing to the toll of frequent childbirths and poor living conditions. Margaret Sanger was a birth control activist, sex educator, writer, as well as a nurse (Katz, 2000). Margaret was the first to popularize the term “birth control” with her great push to educate women about family planning. After returning to work, Sanger faced many difficult examples of how miscarriages, frequent childbirth as well as self-induced abortions were affecting the poverty stricken women in her community. She believed that women should have equal rights like men in society and should be able to choose when to give birth to …show more content…
It is obvious by looking at her accomplishments that it does not take many people to produce a substantial change in our health care system today. It takes one person with a vision and stubborn attitude to see out the necessary changes that needed to be made. A key challenge Margaret had to overcome throughout her lifetime was overcoming the stigma society had against contraceptives that was induced by popular conservative opinions at the time. She was able to overcome this challenge by educating the public about contraceptives and the benefits it could have on the population. Today, we face many similar issues that were a problem in the beginning of the 20th century, we face the issue of gathering enough public support in order to reduce the rate of unintended pregnancy as well as finding the support and funding to provide the necessary health care services to prevent these
Assignment #2
SPH 380
Family Planning
The refinement of family planning has been one of the most pivotal public health achievements in today’s history. Did you know that between 1800 and 1900, family size declined from 7 to 3.5 children with the help of education and contraceptives? Previous to birth control movements, distributing information and counseling patients regarding any type of birth control was illegal under federal and state laws. During this time period, there was little wide spread knowledge about many medical conveniences including time of ovulation, fertility period as well as various other reproductive facts (Achievements in Public Health, 1999). But now, this information has all become modern medicine …show more content…
Margaret was one of eleven children total who witnessed her mothers many miscarriages and early death. Margaret attributes her early passing to the toll of frequent childbirths and poor living conditions. Margaret Sanger was a birth control activist, sex educator, writer, as well as a nurse (Katz, 2000). Margaret was the first to popularize the term “birth control” with her great push to educate women about family planning. After returning to work, Sanger faced many difficult examples of how miscarriages, frequent childbirth as well as self-induced abortions were affecting the poverty stricken women in her community. She believed that women should have equal rights like men in society and should be able to choose when to give birth to …show more content…
It is obvious by looking at her accomplishments that it does not take many people to produce a substantial change in our health care system today. It takes one person with a vision and stubborn attitude to see out the necessary changes that needed to be made. A key challenge Margaret had to overcome throughout her lifetime was overcoming the stigma society had against contraceptives that was induced by popular conservative opinions at the time. She was able to overcome this challenge by educating the public about contraceptives and the benefits it could have on the population. Today, we face many similar issues that were a problem in the beginning of the 20th century, we face the issue of gathering enough public support in order to reduce the rate of unintended pregnancy as well as finding the support and funding to provide the necessary health care services to prevent these