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Margaret Sanger Protests Not Being Allowed to Talk About Birth Control

Mon, 01/23/2012 - 14:54
Submitted by Carlin Ross

Birth control advocate Margaret Sanger has her mouth covered in protest of not being allowed to talk about birth control in Boston. 17 Apr 1929.

Margaret Sanger waited her whole life to see birth control legalized for all women and the pill hit the market.  Just last week Obama signed the Affordable Care Act making birth control covered by health insurance with no co-pay....progress.

When Republicans Supported Planned Parenthood

Wed, 09/28/2011 - 13:23
Submitted by Carlin Ross

Yes, that's George Bush Sr.'s signature at the bottom of a congratulatory letter to Planned Parenthood.  There was a time when the Republicans were pro-contraception and pro-woman.  They whored themselves out for votes when Jerry Falwell and his brand of Christian Fundamentalism spread across the country like a cancer.   

This letter was sent in 1972 after FDA approved the pill.  Margaret Sanger had to wait her whole life - until she was in her 80s - to see contraception go mainstream.  I know someone who's 83 and worked her whole life to advance women's sexual pleasure....

The Right To Choose Motherhood Includes the Right To Experience Orgasm

Thu, 02/11/2010 - 13:54
Submitted by Betty Dodson

I just read a great deal in OTI and one article that resonated was "Convictions to Action: Lessons from Margaret Sanger," by Gloria Feldt. I don't think many people know the story of how Margaret Sanger became the champion of birth control for women:

The defining moment came when Margaret was called to an overcrowded tenement to nurse a 28-year-old mother of three, Sadie Sachs. Sadie had been told another pregnancy would kill her. But when she asked her doctor how to prevent pregnancies, he callously replied, "Tell Jake to sleep on the roof."

Bitterly poor, weak from her last pregnancy, Sadie self-aborted. She got a raging infection (pre-antibiotics). She begged Margaret to tell her how to prevent pregnancies. Margaret shared what knowledge she had, but it wasn't much.

May 9, 1960 The FDA Approved The Pill

Sat, 05/09/2009 - 13:46
Submitted by Carlin Ross

How perfect for mother's day weekend?  Today marks the anniversary of the FDA's approval of the pill ushering in the new era of intentional motherhood.

Margaret Sanger, totally unaware that her lifelong dream had become reality, spent the day at her home outside Tucson, Ariz. Since 1914 she had battled ridicule and rigid laws, even gone to jail, all in pursuit of a simple, inexpensive contraceptive that would change women's lives-and save some as well. Now she was 80 and retired from her globe-trotting efforts.