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?

She emphasized that family planning and control over reproduction were fundamental rights that should be available to all women, regardless of economic status. Margaret Sanger’s advocacy work ...

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 ...

Irish American Margaret Sanger devoted her life to legalizing ... She was one of eleven children born to a working class Irish Catholic family in Corning, New York. Biddy Early was the miracle ...

Founded on October 16, 1916, by the radically progressive feminist Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood ... contraception as an accepted method of family planning — and to do so in a way that ...

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 ...

Mr. Sanger, the grandson of Margaret Sanger, who founded the birth control movement over eighty years ago, is currently Chair of the International Planned Parenthood Council and has served as a ...