Biography founder margaret parenthoods planned sanger short
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Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger (September 14, 1883 – September 6, 1966[2]) was a famous birth control rights activist.
Biography founder margaret parenthoods planned sanger short
She established the American Birth Control League in 1921.[2] This eventually became what we now know as Planned Parenthood in 1946.[2] She helped finance biologist Gregory Pincus's creation of the birth control pill.
Mrs. Sanger has been credited as the first person to use the term “birth control”.[2] Birth control is used to describe contraception, or ways of preventing unwanted pregnancy. She paved the way for contraception to become a widely accepted social practice at a time when spreading information about birth control was prohibited by law.[2]
She studied to become a nurse at Claverack College in the early 1900s.[2] At this time a woman’s place was seen as in the home raising children.
She defied this idea and chose to pursue one of the only career paths available to her. Her career