American Birth Control League

women’s birth control activist. Born on September 14, 1879 she was one of eleven children born. Other than the children born, her mother had seven miscarriages. Sanger had a hard childhood as her father preferred to drink than to keep a steady job. When Sanger was 19 her mother died of Tuberculosis. Over all Sanger did not have it easy as a child. After Sanger’s mother died of TB, Sanger attended nursing school. After…

“Planned Parenthood”. Today, the organization’s name can be heard by many Americans on television, newspapers, and magazines. Many do not know that this organization started as American Birth Control League in 1921 by Margaret Sanger. According to Rachel Galvin, the author of the article named “Margaret Sanger’s Deeds of Terrible Virtue”, “Sanger opened the first American birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn, on October 16, 1916...The clinic was in direct violation of laws prohibiting…

Dating back to October 16, 1916, Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. Soon after, she was arrested and accused of supplying indecent materials to women. In 1938, the clinic officially became the American Birth Control League, and by 1944, had over 200 functioning centers and a significant amount of clients—upwards of around forty-thousand. Many at the time found the operation’s name offensive, and Sanger changed it to what we all know today as the Planned Parenthood…

In 1921, Margaret Sanger, and Fania Mindell, and Ethel Byrne opened America’s first birth control clinic; they were arrested for distributing “obscene materials” to their clients. Their trial led the United States to change their laws involving sex education and birth control. In 1938, their birth control clinic joined the American Birth Control League, which was renamed Planned Parenthood in 1942 because some found the original name to be offensive. They expanded their health care services in…

less fortunate. Planned Parenthood’s roots began in 1916 with Margaret Sanger. That year, Sanger and two other women opened up a birth control…

The two most important themes related to health in American women 's lives between the late 1800 's and early 1900 's are contraception and abortion. Both contraception and abortion would be a turning point for individual rights as well as medicine. Before the institution of medicine accepted birth control and abortion, women in general were regarded as housewives, child bearers and most served the local communities as midwives and healers to the sick. Even though midwives were highly regarded…

Elizabeth Mcdonald gave women a sense of choice and empowering more freedom that they never had before. She grew up in Athens, a small town in Clarke County, Georgia. Elizabeth was haunted by her mother's premature death giving birth to her, determined to escape similar fate Elizabeth decided not to have children and wanted to forever prevent the same scenario from happening to anyone else. Elizabeth attended Agnes Scott Institute in 1908, four years later when she was 21 she moved to New York…

who were having awful experiences with pregnancies. Part of those experiences led her to believe that women should be in total control of childbearing after she had witnessed her mother’s death which she believes it was due after giving birth to eleven children. Her beliefs were that self-induced abortions and difficult pregnancies should be able to be in total control of the mother whether she wants the fetus or not. After the few years passed she started to do something about her beliefs and…

profession. Sanger went through hardships in her course to promote birth control and family planning among women. Although Sanger faced numerous challenges in fighting for women rights, her journey in the nursing profession involved many activities that brought about liberation of women in making decisions regarding their reproductive health. Sanger's early life was not different from those of other typical working class Americans of that time. She was born to a Roman…

Less than sixty years ago, women would not have had this privilege, but instead would heavily rely on men to provide some sort of birth control method. However, thanks to Margaret Sanger, women have the right to choose their form of birth control. Sanger’s legacy consists of many, even now, controversial movements, including the legalization of women’s birth control, the creation of Planned Parenthood clinics and the start of a revolution in sex education for women. She is also seen by many as a…