Margaret Sanger Analysis

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Margaret Sanger is the most prominent leader and name with regard to the field of modern birth control as well as a concept known as ‘free love’ movement. Amongst other quotes, 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. The statement is simple but in many ways got different responses from different scholars. 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 control of their resources or is she trying to control the poor? Margaret Sanger devotes her life to legalizing birth control and has the intention of making it globally available for all women (Bergman). Due to her …show more content…

Margaret Sanger is now in her seventies, old and weak, she realizes that she is leaving the world but has not yet achieved the control of the population as she had wanted. At this point she is making strides to have a manner in which the population toll can be controlled. She is looking for a controlling program, the magic pill as she puts it; a manner in which the society can control the number of people in the …show more content…

A vision where birth control would be cheap and accessible for all women. She managed to achieve the control of birth from a pill and it is easy as taking an aspirin. Before she dies, a law is passed that allows for private use of contraceptives. She did not only fight for control of women’s fertility but she is able to see it happen a year before she passes away (Citizen Magazine). Margaret is openly influenced by other theoretical scholars like Darwin and she makes radicals in her extremely successful campaign enough to produce a socialist state based squarely on eugenics. Her birth control movement is able to thrive due to the fact that it is able to give a fulfillment to a real need in the early 1900s (Citizen Magazine). Her program brought about the ability of women in the time to engage in sexual immorality thus meaning that her goal did not work in her time. Margaret’s birth control idea led to a corrupted society and eventually controlling of the population, which was not in her