Margaret Sanger s Margaret Louise Sanger - 1131 Words

According to the biography, â€Å"Margaret Louise Sanger† (2007), Margaret was born on September 14, 1879 in Corning, New York. She was born to her parents, Anne Purcell and Michael Hennessey Higgins, who were Irish Catholic Immigrants. Shortly after the birth of her eleventh child, Anne Purcell died from tuberculosis; Margaret was nineteen (â€Å"The Pill† n.d.). While Margaret was the sixth of eleven children, she and her first husband, William Sanger, had three children together (â€Å"Margaret Louise Sanger† 2007). After a long life of nursing and advocating, Margaret died in Tucson, Arizona on September 6, 1966. Margaret Sanger devoted her life to make contraceptives and abortions available and legal for all women. Margaret was raised Catholic, and†¦show more content†¦Although there are many supporters of Margaret Sanger’s efforts, there are also people who combat these efforts by mentioning Sanger’s original mission which was to use â€Å"birth control as a means of reducing genetically transmitted mental and physical defects† as mentioned in Jennifer Chesworth’s article entitled â€Å"Margaret Sanger† (2005). Chesworth also mentioned how different her views were from that of Nazi Germany, which was mostly based on â€Å"reactionary eugenics†. One of Margaret’s most popular projects, which was co-founded with W.E.B. Du Bois, was â€Å"The Negro Project†. Due to segregation, birth control clinics in the South were closed to black women. The goal of this project was to open birth control clinics staffed by black doctors and nurses that also doubled as education centers for these women (Gandy 2015). According to Jennifer Chesworth’s article, â€Å"Margaret Sanger† (2005), Sanger opened the first birth-control clinic in 1916 in Brooklyn, New York. Due to the clinic’s opening, she and her staff were arrested. When they were released, they opened the seco nd clinic, called the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau. Here, females doctors and social workers were hired to research contraceptives and their effectiveness. Later, she founded the American Birth Control Federation which then turned into the Birth Control Federation of American. The Birth Control Federation of American was the precursor to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.