Why Was Margaret Sanger Advocate For Birth Control?
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.
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Sangers first article was informing people about birth control and how woman deserved to be in charge of their own bodies and lives, but to be able to do that woman had to learn to “avoid the burden of unwanted pregnancies”(Katz). The freedom to plan a life without the complication and an unplanned pregnancy was a way women felt liberated. Back in the mid 1900’s women who got pregnant were forced with terrible option either have a dangerous abortion, a shotgun marriage, or to be a single parent. The knowledge and science was there to prevent this from happening, but because of the Comstock Act, it wasn’t available. In a way it held women down, keeping them from the same freedom men had when it came to their sexual affairs “woman cannot be on equal footing with men until they have complete and full control of their reproductive systems” (Sanger). Sanger went on to publish many different other articles and pamphlets on birth control, and eventual had to flee to Europe due to prosecution. When the chargers were finally dropped Sanger came back to the states and opened the country’s first birth control clinic in Brooklyn but the clinic was shut down nine days later (Katz). This lead to Sangers arrest and her challenging The Comstock Act which lead to the huge progresses in the world of birth control it “allowed women to use birth control for therapeutic
To actually understand why Margaret Stanger had to fight so hard to get the woman on the 1900’s their …show more content…
Sangers first article was informing people about birth control and how woman deserved to be in charge of their own bodies and lives, but to be able to do that woman had to learn to “avoid the burden of unwanted pregnancies”(Katz). The freedom to plan a life without the complication and an unplanned pregnancy was a way women felt liberated. Back in the mid 1900’s women who got pregnant were forced with terrible option either have a dangerous abortion, a shotgun marriage, or to be a single parent. The knowledge and science was there to prevent this from happening, but because of the Comstock Act, it wasn’t available. In a way it held women down, keeping them from the same freedom men had when it came to their sexual affairs “woman cannot be on equal footing with men until they have complete and full control of their reproductive systems” (Sanger). Sanger went on to publish many different other articles and pamphlets on birth control, and eventual had to flee to Europe due to prosecution. When the chargers were finally dropped Sanger came back to the states and opened the country’s first birth control clinic in Brooklyn but the clinic was shut down nine days later (Katz). This lead to Sangers arrest and her challenging The Comstock Act which lead to the huge progresses in the world of birth control it “allowed women to use birth control for therapeutic