THE LEGACY OF MARGARET SANGER, A NURSE AND BIRTH CONTROL EDUCATIONIST WHO LED THE BIRTH CONTROL MOVEMENT.

Margaret Sanger, the mother of Planned Parenthood, was born on September 14, 1879, in Corning, New York. Both of her parents were Irish migrants. Her dad Michael Higgins had emigrated to America as a young man amid the American Civil War and had enrolled in the Union Army as a drummer.

Margaret's mom Anne had initially emigrated to Canada with her family as a child before moving south and meeting Michael. Margaret was the 6th of eleven surviving kids of her parents with seven who were either prematurely delivered or passed on in earliest stages. It's not hard to imagine that seeing the toll those pregnancies took on her mom was something that stayed with her.

Margaret went to Claverack College and the Hudson River Institute before she was selected at White Plains Hospital as an nurse probationer in 1900. She stopped schooling in 1902 when she wedded her husband William Sanger. The couple had three children but one of them died in adolescence.

Her mom's sudden death changed her life. She had brought forth eleven children and endured seven premature deliveries and Margaret trusted that her mom's rehashed pregnancies had debilitated her body to the degree that she was not able to recover from her ailment. This single experience made Margaret become a nurse.

In 1910, the Margaret and her husband moved to New York City, where Margaret worked as a visiting nurse in the poor areas of the city. A significant number of her patients were immigrant women that endured the wellbeing outcomes of botched premature births and repeated pregnancies, just like the ugly ordeal her mother passed through in the past.

She believed that the capacity to constrain family size was a key segment to keeping up women's health and wanted every woman to be educated about the utilization and legalization of birth control and contraceptives.

Around this time, Margaret started composing a section for the New York Call entitled, "What Every Girl Should Know." She additionally started longing for an "enchantment pill" to be utilized to control pregnancy.

In 1913, she started distributing a month to month daily paper, The Woman Rebel, and first begat the expression "birth control"." She was later arrested since at that time, it was illicit to convey data on contraception through the mail. She was about to face a five year jail term sentence but she escaped from America and went to England.

Charges against her were dropped in 1915 and she came back to the United States. She started across the nation lecturing with a specific end goal to promote birth control. In 1916, she opened a family planning and birth control facility, the first of its kind in the United States. She was captured for the second time, accused of giving data on contraception and fitting ladies for stomachs and she spent 30 days in prison.

Margaret began another magazine in 1917, The Birth Control Review, and in 1921 she organised the first ever American birth control gathering where she built up the American Birth Control League, a forerunner to the present Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

In 1923, Margaret opened the first ever legal birthday control clinic called the Clinical Research Bureau. She was leader of the American Birth Control League until 1929 and from that point forward, she helped win a legal case that allowed American doctors to give out information about birth control.

She kept on upholding for birth control even after she resigned in the mid 1940s. She encouraged research activities to create spermicidal jams and foam powders and lastly hormonal contraceptives.

One year before she passed on, the Supreme Court made birth control legitimate for every wedded couple. Margaret Higgins Sanger passed on September 6, 1966, in a nursing home in Tucson, Arizona.

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REFERENCES

• https://www.biography.com/people/margaret-sanger-9471186

• https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Sanger

• http://time.com/4081760/margaret-sanger-history-eugenics/