“It’s real easy to say you’re 100% against abortion when you’ll never have to make that decision.” - Anonymous. Women everyday have to make that decision, to decide whether or not to have an abortion, but the catch is most of those women are in circumstances where they cannot gain access to an abortion. “Approximately 25% of the world's population lives in countries with highly restrictive abortion laws” (Abortion..) Women in 74 different countries who have, intentionally or unintentionally, fallen pregnant are not allowed to have an abortion. For many people the idea of not having complete and utter control over their body is unfathomable, as it should be. Abortions must be permitted; they need to become a standard medical procedure. Abortions have to become a standard medical procedure regarding, Margaret Sanger’s fight to have access to abortions and …show more content…
She, at first, was seen as a radical feminist, later on she would be seen as a reproductive rights heroine. “No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body.” (A Parents..) This was Sanger’s defining quote, it was the beginning of a revolutionary mindset. Understanding women can not be free unless they have control over themselves; Sanger understood that something needed to be done. Early in her life, Sanger was a nurse, where she witnessed countless women who had gone through back alley abortions or tried to self terminate a pregnancy because of an array of reasons. After watching many women suffer from botched abortions, Sanger started her fight to make birth control and safe abortions more available. This was well over 100 years ago; yes, contraceptives are available in most countries, but abortions are still difficult to achieve in first world countries, but they are almost unfathomable in developing countries, even if the pregnancy occurred after