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?

In the late 1800s, those who wanted to eliminate birth control and abortion targeted the U.S. mail. Now the conduit in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Margaret Sanger was a nurse. She saw the worst and she thought all women had the right to safe contraception, birth control. SANGER: You’re going to get through this. Andrew: “I shuddered with ...

Founded on October 16, 1916, by the radically progressive feminist Margaret Sanger ... in the past 100 years. Sanger’s initial focus was to provide women with birth control, which Planned ...

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 ...