Women's Rights Movements During The Progressive Era

During the Progressive Era, the popularity of women’s rights movements was at an all-time high, allowing the Women’s Reproductive Rights movement’s to come into play. One of the most successful and remembered women’s rights activist during this time was Margaret Sanger. Sanger strongly believed that women have the right to control their fertility and to decided how many children they will have. She proudly supported the use of birth control and dedicated her time, freedom and life advocating for women who had no voice.
- Sanger’s reasoning for her beliefs started out when she was just a small child. Sanger wrote “Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, [and] jails