Margaret Sanger was a nurse. During her career, she saw a lot of women that lived multiple pregnancies that were unplanned and unwanted. She herself expirienced a close family death when she was growing up. Her mother bore 11 children, then died from cervical cancer. This allowed her to create ways for contraception. In 1912, she gave up being a nurse and dedicated her life to the benefit of contraception. However, the Comstock Act of 1873 did not allow her to distribute any birth control. After this, she decided to write articles to help her cause. She later went to Europe, coming home from her trip, she saw a paper that she was being indicted and went back to Europe. Before leaving she started the National Birth Control League. After a few years, she started her own birth control clinic. She was arrested many times because of this, which allowed laws to be modified and allowed doctors to give out birth control for women. She went on to help organize the World Population Conference in Geneva and in time, this created what we know today as Planned Parenthood. Margaret wrote many books, articles, and an autobiography. In the 20th Century, women had no choice in whether or not they wanted to get pregnant since, they had to follow what men told them. Sanger created a way for them to be able to avoid getting pregnant.
Margaret Sanger was a nurse in a neighborhood in new york city. In 1916, she founded the first birth control clinic in the United States. At that time, it was illegal to distribute information on contraception but she did it anyway. She was an advocate for Women's Rights and Birth Control so she was very active in both. She later founded the American Birth Control League and later it became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Margaret Sanger started as a nurse that worked with poor women in the Lower East Side of New York. When it came to the effects of unplanned pregnancies she was very aware of the difficulties and problems that women would come to. Women could not control pregnancies or help prevent it and there was no such thing as birth control, as she was one out of 11 children. Having that many kids did not just put stress on ones finances, it was also harmful to a women’s health. Margaret soon realized and believed that women should have control over when and how many kids they have, which turned into the invention of birth control. Sanger then gave up nursing in 1912 to distribute birth control information. Her success was slowed down by the Comstock Act of 1873 as it forbids any kind of information or distribution of birth control. She went on to write articles named What Every Girl Should Know and What Every Mother Should Know. A few years later (either 1916 or 1917) she set up the first birth control clinic in the US. After many arrests and prosecutions, her word got across and doctors were able to give birth-control advice and devices out. She also created the firs Planned Parenthood Federation.
Surely with the institution of women’s rights, alterations to child education and labor laws, and growing corruption in the American government, one can vividly view the fast pace at which the late 19th century, early 20th century Progressive Movement was…well…moving! The Progressive Movement was an effort by the “Progressives” to cease the disunity in America, in terms of civil rights of laborers, African Americans, and women, the country’s use of natural resources, economics, and corporate power. Even so, in the midst disputable presidential actions, poverty, and riots, Margaret Sanger played a prodigious role in challenging the gender restrictions in the early 20th century.
Known for advocating birth control (thank the Lord!!!) and women’s health, Margaret Sanger was an American nurse who founded the American Birth Control League. Moreover, she broke a huge barrier for women, as far as jobs were concerned. “Women continued to find opportunities for employment in the cities, though they tended to cluster in a few low- playing jobs (such as retail clerking and office typing) that became classified as ‘women’s work’” (Kennedy 745). However, Sanger, not fazed by the common restrictions put on women, organized a birth- control movement and openly championed the use of contraceptives. As she worked with poverty-stricken women on the Lower East Side of New York, she viewed the effects of unplanned pregnancies. Not to mention, her mother went through eleven pregnancies, and as a result, became ill. Sanger, a fiery feminist, believed in the well being of women and the availability of birth control, a term which she's credited with inventing (http://womenshistory.about.com/od/sangermargaret).
Furthermore, Margaret Sanger did not stay a nurse. She committed herself to aiding women and advocating birth control. Consequently, she paid a price for taking a stand. The Comstock Act of 1873 forbade distribution of birth control devices and information, resulting in the scrutiny that Sanger endured. Writing many bold articles in the “Socialist Papers” and books, she continued to advocate not only birth control, but also women’s rights, and a hint of women’s rebellion. Moreover, Sanger brought to light the fact that women were intelligent, independent, and were able to read, write, and work, just like men. Let us just say that she literally ended the era of barefoot, pregnant, and kitchen bound women in her career as an activist.
Margaret Sanger was a women who lived in a time where women were mostly oppressed by their so called duties. Women did not have a voice on anything, even on their bodies, they had no choice wither to have children or not. But Margaret wanted women to have a chance to stand up for their rights, a chance to more then household wives. Margaret tried to inform women threw her article, "What Every Girl Should Know," and she tried to tell women about birth control. Threw out 19th century women were giving themselves self-induced abortions and this lead to many deaths. Margaret wanted women to stop suffering; to let them feel as if they were worthy of being women. http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/bl_sanger_1924.htm
Toward the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, Margaret Sanger was trained and employed as a nurse. Working in the Lower East Side of New York, Sanger witnessed the effects that unplanned and/or undesired births had on the mental and physical health inhabiting this part of New York. This coupled her knowledge of the experience her mother had with multiple births (Margaret Sanger's mother's health suffered more and more with each of her 18 births) caused a realization in Sanger's mind. Sanger realized that women needed a way, or at least knowledge of a way, to control whether they had children. With this knowledge, women would not only have better control over their health but also have a more "equal footing" in society. They would have more equal footing because women would now have a choice whether they would have children, a decision previously only decide by men.
Margaret Sanger began her work with by publishing a column in the New York Call titled "What Every Girl Should Know". She also created and distrubuted pamphlets title "Family Limitations". Both texts contained information concerning contraception for women, the distribution of which was prohibited by the Comstock Law of 1873. Her works did not stop here however. Sanger created a birth control clinic in Brooklyn, NY. She also helped founded the American Birth Control League (ABCL). Through the ABCL,she founded the Clinical Research Bureau. In 1923, she founded the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, serving as its president until birth control, under medical supervision, was legalized and this committee was no longer needed.
Margaret Sanger was a very significant activist in women’s rights and specifically birth control. She started her career as a nurse after nursing her own mother, until she passed away. She became a strong believer of birth control because it gave them the option to get pregnant when it was convenient for them, and not at random. Through being a nurse she witnessed many women who were ill and hurt from self-induced abortions. If birth control methods were available, those women might not have been in that predicament anyway. With the option of birth control, women have a choice on what happens in their lives which could change their future for the better. With this option now open, Margaret Sanger has helped women more freedom and has helped close the gap on gender restrictions.
Sanger had a strong believe on birth control because the growth of population was very rapid, which would then cause despair in the country's or states finances. The fact that there wasn't anyway to prevent birth or control didn't really help the birth rate. What discourage this movement was the Comstock Act of 1873. This act prohibited the distribution of birth control. After she wrote two important articles called "What every girl should know" and "What every mother should know" she then opened the first birth control clinic in the USA. She had a strong influence and a positive influence on the population of this country. - Brandon Piazza
Basically, Sanger came into the scene as a nurse in the lower EastSide of New York where unplanned pregnancies were happening by the dozen. Many women she dealt with came with many issues that disturbed Sanger so badly that she felt she needed to do something. Because of a lack of birth control, she took it upon herself to make a difference. Sanger quit her job in search of some kind of hope in which she could give women some hope; birth control. Along the road her journey was cut short by the Comstick Act of 1873 which prohibited distribution of birth control. Though hindered, Sanger went on to write two articles called "What every girl should know" and "What every mother should know". Afterwards, opening the first birth control clinic . - B.Hopkins
Please note, I wrote you the greatest essay ever last week but for whatever reason google persists to be stupid... I'm sorry this one wont compare.
In an age where things were rappidly moving, Margret Sanger was behind pushing it along challenging the way of life for women world wide. In the 1880's, the mear mention of Woman's Rights was a mear antidocte among all. Why would they think that a custum as such would change since women have been in the same place for thousands of years! Even so, she played a vital role in giving woman something they never had, freedom. Once a nurse, and known for advocating birth control, Sanger believed it was a womans right to be in control of her body. She saw first hand how an unwanted pregnancy could destory ones life. Birth Control would give woman the power to take control over this. Sanger as well founded the American Birth Control League. But these steps came at great price to Sanger. "William Sanger had been arrested and jailed for distributing one copy of Family Limitation, and Margaret Sanger returned to face the charges against her." (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4847bx.htm) But her strifes would change the world in a HUGE way. That one recent joke about Womans Rights was coming true. Facing danger, imprisonment and the rest of the scandalist world they lived in, Sanger saw what should be done, and did it.
Margaret Sanger was an American birth control activist during the Progressive Era. She began her career as a nurse on the Lower East Side of New York City. “As Margaret worked in New York's Lower East Side with poor women who were repeatedly suffering due to frequent childbirth and self-induced abortions, she began to speak out for the need of women to become knowledgeable about birth control.” (Source 1) This was when Sanger had the most life changing events in her life, and this is when Sanger began to fight for Woman's rights.
Sanger soon began printing pamphlets, and a newsletter called The Woman Rebel informing women on birth control and stating things such as a woman should be "the absolute mistress of her own body," (Source 2) which was very controversial for the time. Sanger was eventually charged with violation of U.S postal obscenity laws, but skipped out on bail and fled to Europe. During her time in Europe she discovered that the diaphragm was much more effective then the contraception she had been distributing. This discovery introduced the diaphragm into American society because Sanger began to smuggle them into the country.
In 1921 Sanger founded the American Birth Control League. She had also released several publications on the subjects of menstruation and sexuality in adolescents beforehand. Sanger spent the rest of her life fighting for her beliefs, found the Chief Research Bureau, and publishing many other pieces of literature on a variety of subjects before her death in 1966. While Sanger had some rather unsavory beliefs such as eugenics, but without her crusade for women birth control, America would be a lot worse of for women and for everyone else
Margaret Sanger was a nurse. During her career, she saw a lot of women that lived multiple pregnancies that were unplanned and unwanted. She herself expirienced a close family death when she was growing up. Her mother bore 11 children, then died from cervical cancer. This allowed her to create ways for contraception.
ReplyDeleteIn 1912, she gave up being a nurse and dedicated her life to the benefit of contraception. However, the Comstock Act of 1873 did not allow her to distribute any birth control. After this, she decided to write articles to help her cause. She later went to Europe, coming home from her trip, she saw a paper that she was being indicted and went back to Europe. Before leaving she started the National Birth Control League.
After a few years, she started her own birth control clinic. She was arrested many times because of this, which allowed laws to be modified and allowed doctors to give out birth control for women.
She went on to help organize the World Population Conference in Geneva and in time, this created what we know today as Planned Parenthood. Margaret wrote many books, articles, and an autobiography. In the 20th Century, women had no choice in whether or not they wanted to get pregnant since, they had to follow what men told them. Sanger created a way for them to be able to avoid getting pregnant.
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/bl_sanger_1924.htm
Margaret Sanger was a nurse in a neighborhood in new york city. In 1916, she founded the first birth control clinic in the United States. At that time, it was illegal to distribute information on contraception but she did it anyway. She was an advocate for Women's Rights and Birth Control so she was very active in both. She later founded the American Birth Control League and later it became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
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Margaret Sanger started as a nurse that worked with poor women in the Lower East Side of New York. When it came to the effects of unplanned pregnancies she was very aware of the difficulties and problems that women would come to. Women could not control pregnancies or help prevent it and there was no such thing as birth control, as she was one out of 11 children. Having that many kids did not just put stress on ones finances, it was also harmful to a women’s health. Margaret soon realized and believed that women should have control over when and how many kids they have, which turned into the invention of birth control.
ReplyDeleteSanger then gave up nursing in 1912 to distribute birth control information. Her success was slowed down by the Comstock Act of 1873 as it forbids any kind of information or distribution of birth control. She went on to write articles named What Every Girl Should Know and What Every Mother Should Know. A few years later (either 1916 or 1917) she set up the first birth control clinic in the US. After many arrests and prosecutions, her word got across and doctors were able to give birth-control advice and devices out. She also created the firs Planned Parenthood Federation.
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ReplyDeleteSurely with the institution of women’s rights, alterations to child education and labor laws, and growing corruption in the American government, one can vividly view the fast pace at which the late 19th century, early 20th century Progressive Movement was…well…moving! The Progressive Movement was an effort by the “Progressives” to cease the disunity in America, in terms of civil rights of laborers, African Americans, and women, the country’s use of natural resources, economics, and corporate power. Even so, in the midst disputable presidential actions, poverty, and riots, Margaret Sanger played a prodigious role in challenging the gender restrictions in the early 20th century.
ReplyDeleteKnown for advocating birth control (thank the Lord!!!) and women’s health, Margaret Sanger was an American nurse who founded the American Birth Control League. Moreover, she broke a huge barrier for women, as far as jobs were concerned. “Women continued to find opportunities for employment in the cities, though they tended to cluster in a few low- playing jobs (such as retail clerking and office typing) that became classified as ‘women’s work’” (Kennedy 745). However, Sanger, not fazed by the common restrictions put on women, organized a birth- control movement and openly championed the use of contraceptives. As she worked with poverty-stricken women on the Lower East Side of New York, she viewed the effects of unplanned pregnancies. Not to mention, her mother went through eleven pregnancies, and as a result, became ill. Sanger, a fiery feminist, believed in the well being of women and the availability of birth control, a term which she's credited with inventing (http://womenshistory.about.com/od/sangermargaret).
Furthermore, Margaret Sanger did not stay a nurse. She committed herself to aiding women and advocating birth control. Consequently, she paid a price for taking a stand. The Comstock Act of 1873 forbade distribution of birth control devices and information, resulting in the scrutiny that Sanger endured. Writing many bold articles in the “Socialist Papers” and books, she continued to advocate not only birth control, but also women’s rights, and a hint of women’s rebellion. Moreover, Sanger brought to light the fact that women were intelligent, independent, and were able to read, write, and work, just like men. Let us just say that she literally ended the era of barefoot, pregnant, and kitchen bound women in her career as an activist.
Margaret Sanger was a women who lived in a time where women were mostly oppressed by their so called duties. Women did not have a voice on anything, even on their bodies, they had no choice wither to have children or not. But Margaret wanted women to have a chance to stand up for their rights, a chance to more then household wives. Margaret tried to inform women threw her article, "What Every Girl Should Know," and she tried to tell women about birth control. Threw out 19th century women were giving themselves self-induced abortions and this lead to many deaths. Margaret wanted women to stop suffering; to let them feel as if they were worthy of being women.
ReplyDeletehttp://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/bl_sanger_1924.htm
Toward the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, Margaret Sanger was trained and employed as a nurse. Working in the Lower East Side of New York, Sanger witnessed the effects that unplanned and/or undesired births had on the mental and physical health inhabiting this part of New York. This coupled her knowledge of the experience her mother had with multiple births (Margaret Sanger's mother's health suffered more and more with each of her 18 births) caused a realization in Sanger's mind. Sanger realized that women needed a way, or at least knowledge of a way, to control whether they had children. With this knowledge, women would not only have better control over their health but also have a more "equal footing" in society. They would have more equal footing because women would now have a choice whether they would have children, a decision previously only decide by men.
ReplyDeleteMargaret Sanger began her work with by publishing a column in the New York Call titled "What Every Girl Should Know". She also created and distrubuted pamphlets title "Family Limitations". Both texts contained information concerning contraception for women, the distribution of which was prohibited by the Comstock Law of 1873. Her works did not stop here however. Sanger created a birth control clinic in Brooklyn, NY. She also helped founded the American Birth Control League (ABCL). Through the ABCL,she founded the Clinical Research Bureau. In 1923, she founded the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, serving as its president until birth control, under medical supervision, was legalized and this committee was no longer needed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/sangermargaret/p/margaret_sanger.htm
Margaret Sanger was a very significant activist in women’s rights and specifically birth control. She started her career as a nurse after nursing her own mother, until she passed away. She became a strong believer of birth control because it gave them the option to get pregnant when it was convenient for them, and not at random. Through being a nurse she witnessed many women who were ill and hurt from self-induced abortions. If birth control methods were available, those women might not have been in that predicament anyway. With the option of birth control, women have a choice on what happens in their lives which could change their future for the better. With this option now open, Margaret Sanger has helped women more freedom and has helped close the gap on gender restrictions.
ReplyDeleteSanger had a strong believe on birth control because the growth of population was very rapid, which would then cause despair in the country's or states finances. The fact that there wasn't anyway to prevent birth or control didn't really help the birth rate. What discourage this movement was the Comstock Act of 1873. This act prohibited the distribution of birth control. After she wrote two important articles called "What every girl should know" and "What every mother should know" she then opened the first birth control clinic in the USA. She had a strong influence and a positive influence on the population of this country. - Brandon Piazza
ReplyDeleteBasically, Sanger came into the scene as a nurse in the lower EastSide of New York where unplanned pregnancies were happening by the dozen. Many women she dealt with came with many issues that disturbed Sanger so badly that she felt she needed to do something. Because of a lack of birth control, she took it upon herself to make a difference. Sanger quit her job in search of some kind of hope in which she could give women some hope; birth control. Along the road her journey was cut short by the Comstick Act of 1873 which prohibited distribution of birth control. Though hindered, Sanger went on to write two articles called "What every girl should know" and "What every mother should know". Afterwards, opening the first birth control clinic .
ReplyDelete- B.Hopkins
Please note, I wrote you the greatest essay ever last week but for whatever reason google persists to be stupid... I'm sorry this one wont compare.
ReplyDeleteIn an age where things were rappidly moving, Margret Sanger was behind pushing it along challenging the way of life for women world wide. In the 1880's, the mear mention of Woman's Rights was a mear antidocte among all. Why would they think that a custum as such would change since women have been in the same place for thousands of years! Even so, she played a vital role in giving woman something they never had, freedom.
Once a nurse, and known for advocating birth control, Sanger believed it was a womans right to be in control of her body. She saw first hand how an unwanted pregnancy could destory ones life. Birth Control would give woman the power to take control over this. Sanger as well founded the American Birth Control League.
But these steps came at great price to Sanger. "William Sanger had been arrested and jailed for distributing one copy of Family Limitation, and Margaret Sanger returned to face the charges against her." (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4847bx.htm) But her strifes would change the world in a HUGE way. That one recent joke about Womans Rights was coming true. Facing danger, imprisonment and the rest of the scandalist world they lived in, Sanger saw what should be done, and did it.
-Doug
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ReplyDeleteMargaret Sanger was an American birth control activist during the Progressive Era. She began her career as a nurse on the Lower East Side of New York City. “As Margaret worked in New York's Lower East Side with poor women who were repeatedly suffering due to frequent childbirth and self-induced abortions, she began to speak out for the need of women to become knowledgeable about birth control.” (Source 1) This was when Sanger had the most life changing events in her life, and this is when Sanger began to fight for Woman's rights.
ReplyDeleteSanger soon began printing pamphlets, and a newsletter called The Woman Rebel informing women on birth control and stating things such as a woman should be "the absolute mistress of her own body," (Source 2) which was very controversial for the time. Sanger was eventually charged with violation of U.S postal obscenity laws, but skipped out on bail and fled to Europe. During her time in Europe she discovered that the diaphragm was much more effective then the contraception she had been distributing. This discovery introduced the diaphragm into American society because Sanger began to smuggle them into the country.
In 1921 Sanger founded the American Birth Control League. She had also released several publications on the subjects of menstruation and sexuality in adolescents beforehand. Sanger spent the rest of her life fighting for her beliefs, found the Chief Research Bureau, and publishing many other pieces of literature on a variety of subjects before her death in 1966. While Sanger had some rather unsavory beliefs such as eugenics, but without her crusade for women birth control, America would be a lot worse of for women and for everyone else
Mike Peak
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