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Analysis Of Margaret Sanger's Planned Parenthood

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Margaret Sanger, who was she, I know the name does not seem to ring a bell too you, but if you are a woman who has faith for the rights to have access to birth control, you should get to know this rebel leader. This brave woman was one of the most prominent leaders for all women universally, the creator of birth control and the founder of Planned Parenthood. One of her most controversial quotes was “that the most merciful thing that a large family can do to one of its infants is to simply end its life” (Flaherty 26). The statement is simple but in many ways it has received a number of different responses from the people. What then is the impact of her ideas? Is it that Margaret Sanger is trying to open the eyes of the large families and the …show more content…

Consequently, Margaret Sanger wanted to justify to push for the adaptation of birth control throughout her whole life; because there is the general feeling that her mother would have lived longer if it were not for the continual child bearing. To get over the loss of her mother she enrolled in a hospital in New York to nurse the poverty back to health. While she was working day in and day out she would see women sick and leaving destitute by habitual pregnancies. She also saw stricken families that were trapped in scarceness from being paid too low and not even having enough to feed their six children. By the time most of the women that came to Margaret for help it was too late for them. This is when Margaret came to a realization that families need information on birth control and on …show more content…

The act stated... devices, publications and medications or mailing that was anyway related to contraception or abortion or any obscene materials was a crime and would be guaranteed to a trial by jury and if found guilty sentenced to prison. Since Margaret was a feminist and an activist she wrote a publication called The Woman Rebel which stimulated the woman’s right to have birth control. The magazine led her straight into trouble with the law but instead of facing a lengthy time period in jail she was let off the hook and she escaped to England. This is where she conducted more research on other types of birth control and one of these ideas were diaphragms which she eventually smuggled back to the

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May credited Margaret Sanger and fellow women's rights proponent and philanthropist Katherine McCormick for driving, and funding, the push for an oral contraceptive, with the original intent to give women control of fertility. However, the majority of developers and advocates endorsed the birth control pill to solve "the problems of the world," specifically rising population, and particularly among lower socio-economic groups and in developing countries." Advocates feared widespread poverty in developing countries, poverty resulting from communism, and overpopulation in the United States due to the baby boom.

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Margarets' mother Anne Higgins had been pregnant eighteen times in her life with only eleven of them being successful (Katz, 1995). Anne Higgins died at age forty-nine which Margaret blamed on the toll the multiple pregnancies had on her mother body. The death of her mother and her fathers belief of women's rights are what ultimately

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In November 2015, Robert Dear executed an attack on an abortion clinic, Planned Parenthood, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. After a six hour standoff, this attack ended with the death of one police officer and two civilians and injuries to five police officers and four civilians. Robert Dear, 59, was motivated by his Christian faith and believes that his actions were just. Dear’s whole life was painted with crime, violence, and radical demonstrations of his religion. Even a New York Times article made him out as “an angry and occasionally violent, deeply disturbed, and extremely religious man with a long history with law enforcement.”

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Taylor Hurst Kaiser AP Lang 11 November 2015 Analysis of Margaret Sanger’s Speech on Birth Control Margaret Sanger, an American birth control activist, made an announcement titled “The Children’s Era,’ at the first national birth-control conference in March of 1925. In this speech, Sanger attempts to influence her ideas and beliefs on the importance of birth control and contraceptives to the health of society’s women. She also vividly explains how controlled childbearing would apply to children who would eventually be born.

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In her pilgrimage to fight for women’s rights, activist Margaret Sanger created a speech on a severely controversial topic not only during her time period, but during our present time period as well. While many firmly disagreed with her and still do, she did bring to light a major disparity between sexes and social classes. By vocalizing her qualms with the rights of women, mainly in the middle and lower classes, to decide for themselves if they wish to have children or not. By voicing her opinions in an extremely misogynistic era she made herself a totem in women’s history. Women do have a right to decide for themselves if they wish to have children or not.

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Trying to prevent neglected children and back-alley abortions, Margaret Sanger gave the moving speech, “The Children’s Era,” in 1925 to spread information on the benefits and need for birth control and women's rights. Margaret Sanger--activist, educator, writer, and nurse--opened the first birth control clinic in the United States and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. During most of the 1900’s, birth control and abortions were illegal in the United States, causing women to give birth unwillingly to a child they must be fully responsible for. This caused illness and possible death for women attempting self-induced abortion. Sanger uses literary devices such as repetition and analogies

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Many of the eugenicists believed that certain racial and socioeconomic groups were more prone to degeneracy with criminal-like behaviors. Villarosa argued that these were the same attitudes that shaped family planning workers’ decision to target Minnie Lee and Mary Alice Relf for permanent contraception. The Relf sisters came from poor family and were living in public housing, which made them vulnerable to coercive sterilization. Villarosa allows history to help us understand the reproductive violence that the Relf sisters and other females suffered. She explains that forced sterilization was a common practice in the United States during the

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The argument over a woman’s right to choose over the life of an unborn baby has been a prevalent issue in America for many years. As a birth control activist, Margaret Sanger is recognized for her devotion to the pro-choice side of the debate as she has worked to provide sex education and legalize birth control. As part of her pro-choice movement, Sanger delivered a speech at the Sixth International Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference in March of 1925. This speech is called “The Children’s Era,” in which she explains how she wants the twentieth century to become the “century of the child.” Margaret Sanger uses pathos throughout her speech as she brings up many of the negative possibilities that unplanned parenthood can bring for both children and parents.

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