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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...