Birth Control Movement In The 1920's

Birth Control Movement in the 1920s In the 1920s, life was more conservative than it is today. People did not openly talk about sex, planned parenthood, and they definitely did not agree on the use of contraceptives. Many people in the United States thought that birth control was morally wrong; however, a woman named Margaret Sanger would fight to make major changes in this generation that would change our outlook and our opinions about contraceptives forever.
Margaret Sanger was passionate about this movement because of her mother, Anne Higgins, who got pregnant eighteen times and had eleven children along with seven miscarriages. At nineteen years old, Margaret watched her mother die at just 50 years of age due to the destructions of so
Giving women a choice on when they wanted to have kids would call for a repeal of the Comstock law. This law banned the distribution of contraceptives, devices, and any information about contraceptives. In August of 1914, Margaret Sanger was accused on 9 charges of breaking the Comstock Law. She bolted to England to avoid prosecution and used the cover name Bertha Watson. As soon as she got to England, she continued her movement by distributing pamphlets that had information about birth control, abortion, and sex education
Sanger had formed an opinion early on in life about birth control. Ever since she knew that she wanted to take on the challenge of the law and the people of the time period she was living in, she persevered in what she believed in. Sanger had the mindset of what every woman should be born with. There was never a time she wanted to give up. Everything she had worked for paid off and she was able to see women have control over their bodies. Today, 71% of people in the United States use contraceptives. Things would not be what they are today if Margaret Sanger would not have taken a stand for women’s rights in the 19th century