The person I chose is Bethany Hamilton because she had a setback that interfered with her life because she had been surfing and a 14-foot tiger shark attacked. He took a bite in the board and took her left arm with him.She chose to not sit around and throw away her life because she lost her left arm.…
In January 1970 experts assembled in the stately Senate chamber and began giving their testimony on the hazards of the Pill. Alice Wolfson, a member of the radical collective D.C. Women's Liberation, was sitting in the audience listening to the experts. Her group had come to the hearings because they had all taken the Pill at one time or another and had experienced side effects. The group was outraged that their doctors had never informed them of the risks when they prescribed the Pill. As they sat in the chamber and heard one male witness after another describe serious health risks, they were furious that there wasn't a single woman who had taken the Pill there to…
Have you ever heard Irena Sendler? Irena Sendler created changed offering medicine and supplies, taking care of children, and had a growth mindset. Irena was a leader of justice during World War II.…
Amelia Bloomer was a very important historic figure. When Amelia bloomer got married in 1840 she started her own newspaper in Homer, New York, and called it the Lily. Amelia started publishing articles on defending women’s comfort of clothing. Everybody thought this idea was insane but eventually Amelia got her wish. Named after her, the bloomers were created. This made a big difference in Women’s rights because the women did not have to wear their ridiculous long dresses and tight corsets.…
This speech is engaging, thought provoking, and progressive. Merely three years after the deliverance of this speech, Sanger would resign as the president of the ABCL under the notion that she was too radical for the birth control movement (“Biographical Sketch”). Although the specific ideas presented in this speech were never executed, she was able to create tremendous change towards her cause in her lifetime. We know today that the science of eugenics, particularly the form which Sanger discussed, has been debunked, but one is still able to read this work and feel the passion and faith possessed by Margaret Sanger. Margaret Sanger’s fiery devotion to her mission makes this speech an exemplary piece of…
“Defending the unborn against their own disabilities.” Margaret Sanger is known for being a birth control, population control, and a eugenics activist. As a eugenics activist she believed that the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. She was born on Sept 14, 1879, in Corning, New York. Her family had lived in poverty and her father didn’t earn a steady wage. Because her family lived in poverty Sanger searched for a better life, and that way was going to college. She attended Claverack College and Hudson River institute in 1896.…
After 1873, the Comstock Law made it illegal to ship contraceptives; by publishing a book that openly discussed at-home contraception methods, “Family Limitation” led to Sanger’s conviction (Folbre). After her release from the law, she practiced civil disobedience by shipping copies of “Family Limitation” along with physical…
“The one issue upon which there seems to be most uncertainty and disagreement exists in the moral side of the subject of Birth Control.”(Margaret Sanger) Margaret Sanger is an American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse. She is the author of The Morality of birth Control, a speech that was delivered on November 18, 1921 in New York. This speech was given at a time when the church forbids birth control and women were made to focus on having babies and being housewives. Sanger explicitly persuaded an audience of her colleagues, theologians, scientists, and the people. She accomplished this with the use of rhetorical devices such as,…
NEW YORK, 1920’s – Will wonder never sees? Who would have thought that we would see clinics that offered education services to women of a sensitive nature? Margaret Sanger has done just this. Earlier this year she organized the American Birth Control League (ENotes). Ms. Sanger is an advocate of the education for women. She feels that too many women are left in the dark with lack of pregnancy care and home abortions. This is becoming a debate amongst religious leaders and law offices more than ever lately. Many argue that this is immoral and should not be discussed…
Furthermore, in the 1800’s the Comstock law was created, that made birth control and other contraceptives “obscene and illicit” (PBS). Other states followed the Comstock Law as well, creating their own versions of that law which banned contraceptives. The strictest states were Massachusetts and Connecticut, people were not allowed to share information about contraceptives, or even use them. Even married couples were not allowed to use contraceptives with this law, if they were found using contraceptives, they could of been arrested as well as be sentenced to a year in prison. These laws stayed the same for many years, until Margaret Sanger came along. She is seen as an impactful women in reproductive health access. She challenged the Comstock law by opening the first…
The court ruled in Sanger’s favour and she ran a legal birth control clinic, allowing women to enjoy their lives without the risk of having a…
Through her work, Sanger treated a number of women who had undergone back-alley abortions or tried to self-terminate their pregnancies. Sanger objected to the unnecessary suffering endured by these women, and she fought to make birth control information and contraceptives available. She also began dreaming of a "magic pill" to be used to control pregnancy. "No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother."…
Birth control today is widely available and talked about to keep people informed of all of their options. There was a span of time where people especially women had no knowledge of any sort about birth control or the ability to attain any. Margaret Sanger was the woman that was able to start informing woman of all of their options, and gave them a chance to be in control of their own reproductive systems, but why did Margaret Sanger advocate for birth control? What people now experience when it comes to birth control, and woman clinics such as plan parenthood comes from this one woman, and her fight to give woman control over their bodies.…
At the turn of the 20th century, the toll that years of injustices took on American minority groups rose to a breaking point. The plethora of new technology which arrived post-civil war led to many unaddressed socioeconomic issues (“Progressive Movement.”), which caused many discontent individuals to unite to form malcontent groups. Known as the Progressive Era, the first 20 or so years of the century consisted of movements led primarily by working class citizens, african-americans, and women. The various organizations they formed had a “wide range of positions and goals” (“Progressive Movement.”), but were generally united in their desire for obtaining their inalienable rights. Among the leaders of these groups was Margaret Sanger, an…
At the door is a quite intimidating appearing woman ready to go out to vote. She dresses almost like a flapper, with short hair, and a suit with tie. She looks back over her shoulder and sees her husband, who has a look of concern or confusion on his face. He has an apron tied around his waist and holding two crying babies. Additionally, there are plates scattered on the table and a broken one on the floor. The broken plate enhances Gustin’s suggestion that the husband has a significant domestic responsibility in his wife’s absence, and he seems clueless to what he is supposed to do. This also conveys the fears against the set domestic roles of women because Gustin believed that women would involve busily in politics in public rather than concentrating on being a good housewife at home. In actuality, women can be a good mother and important political member. For instance, activist like Margaret Sangers was a devoted mother as well as an important political activist. She became “a national celebrity” (Roark 572) and opened the nation’s first birth control clinic in Brooklyn in October 1916 because she feels that “by having fewer babies, the working class could limit the size of the workforce and make possible higher wages and at the same time refused to provide “cannon fodder” for the world’s armies” (Roark…