In the Year of the Children. Her convictions about the need for birth control resulted in various efforts to silence her, from arrest to removing her name from programs. Despite the large efforts, such restrictions did little to keep Margaret Sanger from speaking, and speaking out, for more than half a century. With her beliefs about the use of birth control and contraceptives on one hand, and an international empire of Planned Parenthood clinics on the other, she stood tall as a controversial icon to the world. In her landmark speech, “The Children’s Era,” Sanger preaches for the acceptance of women to be able to accept or reject the idea of motherhood, rather than have it forced upon them. Sanger utilizes allusion, analogous situations, and diction to emphasize and provide a backbone for her argument. Sanger’s lecture begins by concluding that although the twentieth century was supposed to …show more content…
In contrast to the warm atmosphere of a garden, Grand Central Station, the largest station in New York, is a cold, unfeeling, and mechanical environment. The notion of a committee in such a harsh surrounding being responsible for the fragile role of caring for the young and newborn exemplifies the uncomfortable realities of institutions and orphanages. Complex social issues fruitfully weaved with understandable terms and situations, to provide the audience with a comprehensible look into Sanger’s principles on the topic of birth control. When Sanger speaks of the need of motherhood to be a choice for women, she remarks that “we have got to free women from enforced, enslaved maternity,” relating unwilling mothers to slaves and producing a negative image of the force that society piles upon them to have children despite their hesitance. Wholly, the difference that lay behind Sanger’s words delivers a formidable force in which it touches the