Margaret Sanger In The 1920's

The Roaring Twenties and Sex Margaret Sanger was the nation’s most effective birth control advocate of the 19th century. Her goal was to educate and teach women about their bodies and how to control when they want to have children. In the 1920’s birth control was unacceptable and abortion was completely out of the question. Birth control and other preventatives to help prevent pregnancy were not available to the average American women. During the 1920’s talking about sex or your personal life behind closed doors in public was unacceptable. Sanger wanted to break this and inform women to help them plan ahead for a family. She wanted women to have the right to be able to access birth control. Margaret Sanger was the founder of the American Birth Control League or as we know it now Planned Parenthood (Women Citizen, 17-18). Margaret Sanger was seeking the pity to help women who are

The first woman she uses in her book was married at the age of twelve, has had eleven children and only ten are living. She has decided that she does not want any more children and wants Ms. Sanger’s help with finding a birth control method right for her. Woman number two was married at thirteen and is now seventeen with six children. She is asking for help because her husband gets upset with her when she gets pregnant because he thinks they have plenty. The third woman is twenty- nine and has eight children but her husband only makes a dollar a day and sometimes he doesn’t make anything so they really cannot afford to have any more children. The fourth and final woman has five children but has now contracted tuberculosis and cannot have sexual contact with her husband because he will contract the disease. She is pleading for a birth control method that will help her husband not contract TB so they can get on with their lives and be in love