Margaret Sanger, who is she, I know the name does not seem to ring a bell to 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 is 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 is “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 control of their resources or is she trying to control the poor? …show more content…
Due to her own experiences in her early life, she developed a passion for the art of controlling the number of children a woman could bare. Margaret was one of the children in a large family of eleven children. Her mother that she was close too died at the age of fifty due to tuberculosis and complications from delivering eleven children and having seven miscarriages. Margaret felt that her mother would have lived longer, if it were not for the strain that was mounted on to her throughout her excruciating child bearing