Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett each had a different vision of reproductive freedom. Would reproductive rights be more secure if Dennett’s had prevailed?

Margaret Sanger's birth control movement and quest for the Pill intersected the rise of the eugenics movement in America. At a time when birth control was still not publicly accepted in American ...

Margaret Sanger’s work with Planned Parenthood marks a significant chapter in the history of women’s rights. Her life’s efforts to advocate for birth control and create Planned Parenthood ...

Irish American Margaret Sanger devoted her life to legalizing birth control and making it universally available for women. She was inspired by her upbringing in an Irish American household with 10 ...

That was the battle Margaret Sanger won. It freed the doctors, but it wasn't much immediate help to those who most needed help. There were no funds for birth-control clinics, and Dr. Cooper knew ...

August: Margaret Sanger coins the term "birth control" and dares to use the phrase in the June 1914 issue of The Woman Rebel. For this crime and others, Sanger is indicted for nine violations of ...

Sachs’s death in 1912 shocked Margaret Sanger, a nurse who had attended the young woman for three weeks after her first abortion. Sanger soon gave up nursing and began a lifelong campaign for the ...

In their letter, Vance and his colleagues also mentioned potentially prosecuting physicians, pharmacists, and others “who break the Federal mail-order abortion laws.” Could the birth control pill be ...

Margaret Sanger, a nurse who, in 1914, became a pioneering crusader for women's reproductive rights after she published a booklet on birth control techniques that flew in the face of a law ...

As Sanger found her way to the birth control fight in the early 1910s ... in the words of wealthy downtown feminist Mabel Dodge, Margaret Sanger was “an ardent propagandist for the joys of ...