Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger

By: Miranda Smelcer and JunainePereira

Margaret Sanger

Facts:- Born September 14,

1879- Died September 6,

1966- She was an American

sex educator, nurse and birth control activist.

- Founder of Planned Parenthood and American Birth control league in 1921.

- She served as president for the International Planned ParenthoodConfederation.

She was arrested for giving information to women about birth control.

Her mother had 18 pregnancies with in 22 years.

She wanted to prevent black alley abortions.

This is what people were saying when Margaret Sanger was arrested for opening up to verities of people with planned parenthood and contraceptive.

Planned Parenthood Fact:- Planned Parenthood

started in 1916.- Planned Parenthood is the

largest provider of reproductive health services in the United States, which include contraceptives and abortions.

- The organization started in Brooklyn New York, where Margaret Sanger opened the country's first birth-control clinic.

- Planned Parenthood increases its abortion numbers each year, bucking the nearly 20-year national trend of a decreasing abortion rate. http://www.plannedparenthood.org/

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History of Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood has been around since 1916. Planned Parenthood was a daring subject to talk about because in 1916

people were not open to talking about safe sex, birth control and contraceptive was a natural thing for women.

As soon as the first location opened in Brooklyn, New York many other locations followed along with success because it was a good idea to start talking about safe sex and birth control.

In 1936 Sanger and other birth control cases first won in court. In 1962, doctor Alan Guttmacher, begins his 12-year tenure as Planned

Parenthood president. In 1976 the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down state requirements for

parental and spousal consent before women obtain an abortion. From 1956 to 1962, hundreds of women in the United States and Europe

who took the drug thalidomide while pregnant gave birth to children with birth defects like missing arms and legs.

“Would you rather be uncomfortable for five minutes buying condoms, or be uncomfortable for nine months”.

What Margaret accomplished

In 1914, she witnessed frequent pregnancies as a nurse and self abortions, she started writing and publishing a monthly newsletter, The Woman Rebel.

Margaret was influenced by the conditions of her childhood her mother had 18 children within 22 years, and died at age 50 of tuberculosis and cervical cancer.

In New York, Margaret organized the first birth control clinic with all-female doctors, and a clinic in Harlem with an entirely African-American staff to help out.

What she accomplished.

In 1929, Margaret formed the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, which the focused on her hard efforts to make contraception in the United

In 1929, she formed the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, which served as the focal point of her lobbying efforts to legalize contraception in the United States. States for all women legal.

Sources :

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/ma/ http://

www.biography.com/people/margaret-sanger-9471186

http://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/

http://search.time.com/results.html?N=0&Nty=1&p=0&cmd=tags&srchCat=Full+Archive&Ntt=margaret+sanger

Margaret Sanger video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BpLs1qnSD0

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