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Margaret Sanger
Sanger in 1922
Born
Margaret Louise Higgins
(1879-09-14)September 14, 1879
Corning, New York
Died
September 6, 1966(1966-09-06) (aged 86)
Tucson, Arizona
Occupation
Social reformer, sex educator, writer, nurse
Spouse(s)
William Sanger (1902–1921)[note 1]
James Noah H. Slee (1922–1943)
Children
3
Margaret Higgins Sanger (born Margaret Louise Higgins, September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966, also known as Margaret Sanger Slee) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.[2]
Sanger used her writings and speeches primarily to promote her way of thinking. She was prosecuted for her book Family Limitation under the Comstock Act in 1914. She was afraid of what would happen, so she fled to Britain until she knew it was safe to return to the US.[3] Sanger's efforts contributed to several judicial cases that helped legalize contraception in the United States.[4] Due to her connection with Planned Parenthood, Sanger is a frequent target of criticism by opponents of abortion. However, Sanger drew a sharp distinction between birth control and abortion and was opposed to abortion through the bulk of her career. Sanger remains an admired figure in the American reproductive rights movement.[5] She has been criticized for supporting negative eugenics.[6]
In 1916, Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, which led to her arrest for distributing information on contraception, after an undercover policewoman bought a copy of her pamphlet on family planning.[7] Her subsequent trial and appeal generated controversy. Sanger felt that in order for women to have a more equal footing in society and to lead healthier lives, they needed to be able to determine when to bear children. She also wanted to prevent so-called back-alley abortions,[8] which were common at the time because abortions were illegal in the United States.[9] She believed that while abortion was sometimes justified it should generally be avoided, and she considered contraception the only practical way to avoid them.[10]
In 1921, Sanger founded the American Birth Control League, which later became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. In New York City, she organized the first birth control clinic staffed by all-female doctors, as well as a clinic in Harlem with an all African-American advisory council,[11] where African-American staff were later added.[12] In 1929, she formed the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, which served as the focal point of her lobbying efforts to legalize contraception in the United States. From 1952 to 1959, Sanger served as president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. She died in 1966, and is widely regarded as a founder of the modern birth control movement.[4]
Contents
1 Life
1.1 Early life
1.2 Social activism
1.3 Birth control movement
1.4 American Birth Control League
1.5 Work with the African-American community
1.6 Planned Parenthood era
1.7 Death
2 Views
2.1 Sexuality
2.2 Freedom of speech
2.3 Eugenics
2.4 Abortion
3 Legacy
4 Works
5 See also
6 Notes
7 References
8 Bibliography
8.1 Historiography
9 External links
Life[edit]
Early life[edit]
Sanger was born Margaret Louise Higgins in 1879 in Corning, New York,[13] to Michael Hennessey Higgins, an Irish-born stonemason and free-thinker, and Anne Purcell Higgins, a Catholic Irish-American. Michael Hennessey Higgins had emigrated to the United States at age 14 and joined the Army as a drummer at age 15, during the Civil War. After leaving the army, Michael studied medicine and phrenology, but ultimately became a stonecutter, making stone angels, saints, and tombstones.[14] Michael H. Higgins was a Catholic who became an atheist and an activist for women's suffrage and free public education.[15] Anne was born in Ireland. Her parents brought the family to Canada during the Potato Famine. She married Michael in 1869.[16] Anne Higgins went through 18 pregnancies (with 11 live births) in 22 years before dying at the age of 49. Sanger was the sixth of eleven surviving children,[17] and spent much of her youth assisting with household chores and caring for her younger siblings.
Supported by her two older sisters, Margaret Higgins attended Claverack College and Hudson River Institute, before enrolling in 1900 at White Plains Hospital as a nurse probationer. In 1902, she married the architect William Sanger and gave up her education.[18] Though she was plagued by a recurring active tubercular condition, Margaret Sanger bore three children, and the couple settled down to a quiet life in Westchester, New York.
With sons Grant and Stuart, c. 1919
Social activism[edit]
In 1911, after a fire destroyed their home in Hastings-on-Hudson, the Sangers abandoned the suburbs for a new life in New York City. Margaret Sanger worked as a visiting nurse in the slums of the East Side, while her husband worked as an architect and a house painter. Already imbued with her husband's leftist politics, Margaret Sanger also threw herself into the radical politics and modernist values of pre-World War I Greenwich Village bohemia. She joined the Women's Committee of the New York Socialist party, took part in the labor actions of the Industrial Workers of the World (including the notable 1912 Lawrence textile strike and the 1913 Paterson silk strike) and became involved with local intellectuals, left-wing artists, socialists and social activists, including John Reed, Upton Sinclair, Mabel Dodge and Emma Goldman.[19][page needed]
Sanger's political interests, emerging feminism and nursing experience led her to write two series of columns on sex education entitled "What Every Mother Should Know" (1911–12) and "What Every Girl Should Know" (1912–13) for the socialist magazine New York Call. By the standards of the day, Sanger's articles were extremely frank in their discussion of sexuality, and many New York Call readers were outraged by them. Other readers, however, praised the series for its candor. One stated that the series contained "a purer morality than whole libraries full of hypocritical cant about modesty".[19]:65 Both were published in book form in 1916.[20]
During her work among working-class immigrant women, Sanger met women who underwent frequent childbirth, miscarriages and self-induced abortions for lack of information on how to avoid unwanted pregnancy. Access to contraceptive information was prohibited on grounds of obscenity by the 1873 federal Comstock law and a host of state laws. Seeking to help these women, Sanger visited public libraries, but was unable to find information on contraception.[21] These problems were epitomized in a story that Sanger would later recount in her speeches: while Sanger was working as a nurse, she was called to the apartment of a woman, "Sadie Sachs", who had become extremely ill due to a self-induced abortion. Afterward, Sadie begged the attending doctor to tell her how she could prevent this from happening again, to which the doctor simply advised her to remain abstinent. A few months later, Sanger was called back to Sadie's apartment — only this time, Sadie" died shortly after Sanger arrived. She had attempted yet another self-induced abortion.[22][23] Sanger would sometimes end the story by saying, "I threw my nursing bag in the corner and announced ... that I would never take another case until I had made it possible for working women in America to have the knowledge to control birth;" biographer Ellen Chesler attempted unsuccessfully to find corroboration of this story.[19]:63
This story – along with Sanger's 1904 rescue of her unwanted niece Olive Byrne from the snowbank in which she had been left—marks the beginning of Sanger's commitment to spare women from the pursuit of dangerous and illegal abortions.[23][24][25] Sanger opposed abortion, but primarily as a societal ill and public health danger which would disappear if women were able to prevent unwanted pregnancy.[26]
Given the connection between contraception and working-class empowerment, Sanger came to believe that only by liberating women from the risk of unwanted pregnancy would fundamental social change take place. She launched a campaign to challenge governmental censorship of contraceptive information through confrontational actions.
Sanger became estranged from her husband in 1913, and the couple's divorce was finalized in 1921.[27] In 1922 she married her second husband, James Noah H. Slee.[28]
In 1914, Sanger launched The Woman Rebel, an eight-page monthly newsletter which promoted contraception using the slogan "No Gods, No Masters".[29][note 2][30] Sanger, collaborating with anarchist friends, popularized the term "birth control" as a more candid alternative to euphemisms such as "family limitation"; the term "birth control" was suggested in 1914 by a young friend called Otto Bobstei[19]:97[31][32] Sanger proclaimed that each woman should be "the absolute mistress of her own body."[33] In these early years of Sanger's activism, she viewed birth control as a free-speech issue, and when she started publishing The Woman Rebel, one of her goals was to provoke a legal challenge to the federal anti-obscenity laws which banned dissemination of information about contraception.[34][35] Though postal authorities suppressed five of its seven issues, Sanger continued publication, all the while preparing Family Limitation, another challenge to anti-birth control laws. This 16-page pamphlet contained detailed and precise information and graphic descriptions of various contraceptive methods. In August 1914 Margaret Sanger was indicted for violating postal obscenity laws by sending The Woman Rebel through the postal system. Rather than stand trial, she fled the country.[3]
Margaret Sanger spent much of her 1914 exile in England, where contact with British neo-Malthusians such as Charles Vickery Drysdale helped refine her socioeconomic justifications for birth control. She shared their concern that over-population led to poverty, famine and war.[36] At the Fifth International Neo-Malthusian Conference in 1922, she was the first woman to chair a session.[37] She organized the Sixth International Neo-Malthusian and Birth-Control Conference that took place in New York in 1925.[19]:225>[38] Over-population would remain a concern of hers for the rest of her life.[36]
During her 1914 trip to England, she was also profoundly influenced by the liberation theories of Havelock Ellis, under whose tutelage she sought not just to make sexual intercourse safer for women but more pleasurable. Another notable person she met around this time was Marie Stopes, who had run into Sanger after she had just given a talk on birth control at a Fabian Society meeting. Stopes showed Sanger her writings and sought her advice about a chapter on contraception.[39][40]
Early in 1915, Margaret Sanger's estranged husband, William Sanger, gave a copy of Family Limitation to a representative of anti-vice politician Anthony Comstock. William Sanger was tried and convicted, spending thirty days in jail while attracting interest in birth control as an issue of civil liberty.[41][42][43] Margaret's second husband, Noah Slee, also lent his help to her life's work. In 1928, Slee would smuggle diaphragms into New York through Canada[19]:255 in boxes labeled as 3-In-One Oil.[44] He later became the first legal manufacturer of diaphragms in the United States.[45]
Birth control movement[edit]
Main article: Birth control movement in the United States
This page from Sanger's Family Limitation, 1917 edition, describes a cervical cap
Some countries in northwestern Europe had more liberal policies towards contraception than the United States at the time, and when Sanger visited a Dutch birth control clinic in 1915, she learned about diaphragms and became convinced that they were a more effective means of contraception than the suppositories and douches that she had been distributing back in the United States. Diaphragms were generally unavailable in the United States, so Sanger and others began importing them from Europe, in defiance of United States law.[19][page needed]
On October 16, 1916, Sanger opened a family planning and birth control clinic at 46 Amboy Street in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, the first of its kind in the United States.[46] Nine days after the clinic opened, Sanger was arrested. Sanger's bail was set at $500 and she went back home. Sanger continued seeing some women in the clinic until the police came a second time. This time, Sanger and her sister, Ethel Byrne, were arrested for breaking a New York state law that prohibited distribution of contraceptives. Sanger was also charged with running a public nuisance.[47] Sanger and Byrne went to trial in January 1917.[48] Byrne was convicted and sentenced to 30 days in a workhouse but went on a hunger strike. She was force-fed, the first woman hunger striker in the US to be so treated.[49] Only when Sanger pledged that Byrne would never break the law was she pardoned after ten days.[50] Sanger was convicted; the trial judge held that women did not have "the right to copulate with a feeling of security that there will be no resulting conception."[51] Sanger was offered a more lenient sentence if she promised to not break the law again, but she replied: "I cannot respect the law as it exists today."[52] For this, she was sentenced to 30 days in a workhouse.[52] An initial appeal was rejected, but in a subsequent court proceeding in 1918, the birth control movement won a victory when Judge Frederick E. Crane of the New York Court of Appeals issued a ruling which allowed doctors to prescribe contraception.[53] The publicity surrounding Sanger's arrest, trial, and appeal sparked birth control activism across the United States and earned the support of numerous donors, who would provide her with funding and support for future endeavors.[54]
In February 1917, Sanger began publishing the monthly periodical Birth Control Review.[note 3]
American Birth Control League[edit]
Sanger published the Birth Control Review from 1917 to 1929.[note 4]
After World War I, Sanger shifted away from radical politics, and she founded the American Birth Control League (ABCL) in 1921 to enlarge her base of supporters to include the middle class.[55] The founding principles of the ABCL were as follows:[56]
We hold that children should be (1) Conceived in love; (2) Born of the mother's conscious desire; (3) And only begotten under conditions which render possible the heritage of health. Therefore we hold that every woman must possess the power and freedom to prevent conception except when these conditions can be satisfied.
After Sanger's appeal of her conviction for the Brownsville clinic secured a 1918 court ruling that exempted physicians from the law prohibiting the distribution of contraceptive information to women (provided it was prescribed for medical reason), she established the Clinical Research Bureau (CRB) in 1923 to exploit this loophole.[19][page needed][57] The CRB was the first legal birth control clinic in the United States, staffed entirely by female doctors and social workers.[58] The clinic received extensive funding from John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his family, who continued to make anonymous donations to Sanger's causes in subsequent decades.[59][19]:425
John D. Rockefeller Jr. donated five thousand dollars to her American Birth Control League in 1924 and a second time in 1925.[60] In 1922, she traveled to China, Korea, and Japan. In China she observed that the primary method of family planning was female infanticide, and she later worked with Pearl Buck to establish a family planning clinic in Shanghai.[61] Sanger visited Japan six times, working with Japanese feminist Kato Shidzue to promote birth control.[62] This was ironic, since ten years earlier Sanger had accused Katō of murder and praised an attempt to kill her.[63]
In 1928, conflict within the birth control movement leadership led Sanger to resign as the president of the ABCL and take full control of the CRB, renaming it the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (BCCRB), marking the beginning of a schism that would last until 1938.[64]
Sanger invested a great deal of effort communicating with the general public. From 1916 onward, she frequently lectured (in churches, women's clubs, homes, and theaters) to workers, churchmen, liberals, socialists, scientists, and upper-class women.[65] She once lectured on birth control to the women's auxiliary of the Ku Klux Klan in Silver Lake, New Jersey.[66]
She wrote several books in the 1920s which had a nationwide impact in promoting the cause of birth control. Between 1920 and 1926, 567,000 copies of Woman and the New Race and The Pivot of Civilization were sold.[67] She also wrote two autobiographies designed to promote the cause. The first, My Fight for Birth Control, was published in 1931 and the second, more promotional version, Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, was published in 1938.
During the 1920s, Sanger received hundreds of thousands of letters, many of them written in desperation by women begging for information on how to prevent unwanted pregnancies.[68][69] Five hundred of these letters were compiled into the 1928 book, Motherhood in Bondage.[70][71]
W. E. B. Du Bois served on the board of Sanger's Harlem clinic[72]
Work with the African-American community[edit]
Sanger worked with African American leaders and professionals who saw a need for birth control in their communities. In 1929, James H. Hubert, a black social worker and the leader of New York's Urban League, asked Sanger to open a clinic in Harlem.[73] Sanger secured funding from the Julius Rosenwald Fund and opened the clinic, staffed with black doctors, in 1930. The clinic was directed by a 15-member advisory board consisting of black doctors, nurses, clergy, journalists, and social workers. The clinic was publicized in the African-American press as well as in black churches, and it received the approval of W. E. B. Du Bois, the co-founder of the NAACP and the editor of its magazine, The Crisis.[74][75][76][77] Sanger did not tolerate bigotry among her staff, nor would she tolerate any refusal to work within interracial projects.[78] Sanger's work with minorities earned praise from Martin Luther King, Jr., in his 1966 acceptance speech for the Margaret Sanger award.[79]
From 1939 to 1942 Sanger was an honorary delegate of the Birth Control Federation of America, which included a supervisory role—alongside Mary Lasker and Clarence Gamble—in the Negro Project, an effort to deliver birth control to poor black people.[80] Sanger, over the objections of other supervisors, wanted the Negro Project to hire black ministers in leadership roles. To emphasize the benefits of hiring black community leaders to act as spokesmen, she wrote to Gamble:
We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.
New York University's Margaret Sanger Papers Project says that though the letter would have been meant to avoid the mistaken notion that the Negro Project was a racist campaign, conspiracy theorists have fraudulently attempted to exploit the quotation "as evidence she led a calculated effort to reduce the black population against their will".[81][82][83]
Planned Parenthood era[edit]
Main article: Planned Parenthood
Sanger's Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau operated from this New York building from 1930 to 1973
In 1929, Sanger formed the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control in order to lobby for legislation to overturn restrictions on contraception.[84] That effort failed to achieve success, so Sanger ordered a diaphragm from Japan in 1932, in order to provoke a decisive battle in the courts. The diaphragm was confiscated by the United States government, and Sanger's subsequent legal challenge led to a 1936 court decision which overturned an important provision of the Comstock laws which prohibited physicians from obtaining contraceptives.[85] This court victory motivated the American Medical Association in 1937 to adopt contraception as a normal medical service and a key component of medical school curriculums.[86]
This 1936 contraception court victory was the culmination of Sanger's birth control efforts, and she took the opportunity, now in her late 50s, to move to Tucson, Arizona, intending to play a less critical role in the birth control movement. In spite of her original intentions, she remained active in the movement through the 1950s.[86]
In 1937, Sanger became chairman of the newly formed Birth Control Council of America, and attempted to resolve the schism between the ABCL and the BCCRB.[87] Her efforts were successful, and the two organizations merged in 1939 as the Birth Control Federation of America.[88][note 5] Although Sanger continued in the role of president, she no longer wielded the same power as she had in the early years of the movement, and in 1942, more conservative forces within the organization changed the name to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a name Sanger objected to because she considered it too euphemistic.[19]:393[89]
In 1948, Sanger helped found the International Committee on Planned Parenthood, which evolved into the International Planned Parenthood Federation in 1952, and soon became the world's largest non-governmental international women's health, family planning and birth control organization. Sanger was the organization's first president and served in that role until she was 80 years old.[90] In the early 1950s, Sanger encouraged philanthropist Katharine McCormick to provide funding for biologist Gregory Pincus to develop the birth control pill which was eventually sold under the name Enovid.[91] Pincus had recruited Dr. John Rock, Harvard gynecologist, to investigate clinical use of progesterone to prevent ovulation. ("The Pill" (2009). PBS series. Retrieved November 29, 2009.)
Death[edit]
Margaret Sanger Square, at the intersection of Mott Street and Bleecker Street in Manhattan
Sanger died of congestive heart failure in 1966 in Tucson, Arizona, aged 86, about a year after the U.S. Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut, which legalized birth control in the United States.[note 6] Sanger is buried in Fishkill, New York, next to her sister, Nan Higgins, and her second husband, Noah Slee.[92] One of her surviving brothers was College Football Hall of Fame player and Pennsylvania State University Head Football coach Bob Higgins.[93]
Views[edit]
Sexuality[edit]
While researching information on contraception, Sanger read treatises on sexuality including The Psychology of Sex by the English psychologist Havelock Ellis and was heavily influenced by it.[94] While traveling in Europe in 1914, Sanger met Ellis.[95] Influenced by Ellis, Sanger adopted his view of sexuality as a powerful, liberating force.[19]:13–14 This view provided another argument in favor of birth control, as it would enable women to fully enjoy sexual relations without fear of unwanted pregnancy.[19]:111–117[96] Sanger also believed that sexuality, along with birth control, should be discussed with more candor,[19]:13–14 and praised Ellis for his efforts in this direction. She also blamed Christianity for the suppression of such discussion.[97]
Sanger opposed excessive sexual indulgence. She wrote that "every normal man and woman has the power to control and direct his sexual impulse. Men and women who have it in control and constantly use their brain cells thinking deeply, are never sensual."[98][99] Sanger said that birth control would elevate women away from a position of being an object of lust and elevate sex away from purely being for satisfying lust, saying that birth control "denies that sex should be reduced to the position of sensual lust, or that woman should permit herself to be the instrument of its satisfaction."[100] Sanger wrote that masturbation was dangerous. She stated: "In my personal experience as a trained nurse while attending persons afflicted with various and often revolting diseases, no matter what their ailments, I never found any one so repulsive as the chronic masturbator. It would not be difficult to fill page upon page of heart-rending confessions made by young girls, whose lives were blighted by this pernicious habit, always begun so innocently."[101] She believed that women had the ability to control their sexual impulses, and should utilize that control to avoid sex outside of relationships marked by "confidence and respect." She believed that exercising such control would lead to the "strongest and most sacred passion."[102] However, Sanger was not opposed to homosexuality and praised Ellis for clarifying "the question of homosexuals... making the thing a—not exactly a perverted thing, but a thing that a person is born with different kinds of eyes, different kinds of structures and so forth... that he didn't make all homosexuals perverts—and I thought he helped clarify that to the medical profession and to the scientists of the world as perhaps one of the first ones to do that."[97]
Freedom of speech[edit]
Sanger opposed censorship throughout her career. Sanger grew up in a home where orator Robert Ingersoll was admired.[103] During the early years of her activism, Sanger viewed birth control primarily as a free-speech issue, rather than as a feminist issue, and when she started publishing The Woman Rebel in 1914, she did so with the express goal of provoking a legal challenge to the Comstock laws banning dissemination of information about contraception.[35] In New York, Emma Goldman introduced Sanger to members of the Free Speech League, such as Edward Bliss Foote and Theodore Schroeder, and subsequently the League provided funding and advice to help Sanger with legal battles.[104]
Over the course of her career, Sanger was arrested at least eight times for expressing her views during an era in which speaking publicly about contraception was illegal.[105] Numerous times in her career, local government officials prevented Sanger from speaking by shuttering a facility or threatening her hosts.[106] In Boston in 1929, city officials under the leadership of James Curley threatened to arrest her if she spoke. In response she stood on stage, silent, with a gag over her mouth, while her speech was read by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr.[107]
Her 1920 book endorsed negative eugenics
Eugenics[edit]
After World War I, Sanger increasingly appealed to the societal need to limit births by those least able to afford children. The affluent and educated already limited their child-bearing, while the poor and uneducated lacked access to contraception and information about birth control.[108] Here she found an area of overlap with eugenicists.[108] She believed that they both sought to "assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit." They differed in that "eugenists imply or insist that a woman's first duty is to the state; we contend that her duty to herself is her duty to the state."[109] Sanger was a proponent of negative eugenics, which aimed to improve human hereditary traits through social intervention by reducing the reproduction of those who were considered unfit.[6]
Sanger's view of eugenics was influenced by Havelock Ellis and other British eugenicists, who held that environmentally acquired traits were inherited by one's progeny.[110] Consequently, she rejected race and ethnicity as determining factors.[111][19]:195–6 Instead, she stressed limiting the number of births to live within one's economic ability to raise and support healthy children. This would lead to a betterment of society and the human race.[112] Sanger's view put her at odds with leading American eugenicists, such as Charles Davenport, who took a racist view of inherited traits. She continually rejected their approach.[113]
In "The Morality of Birth Control", a 1921 speech, she divided society into three groups: the "educated and informed" class that regulated the size of their families, the "intelligent and responsible" who desired to control their families in spite of lacking the means or the knowledge, and the "irresponsible and reckless people" whose religious scruples "prevent their exercising control over their numbers." Sanger concludes, "There is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped."[114]
Sanger's eugenic policies included an exclusionary immigration policy, free access to birth control methods, and full family planning autonomy for the able-minded, as well as compulsory segregation or sterilization for the "profoundly retarded".[115][116] Sanger wrote, "we [do not] believe that the community could or should send to the lethal chamber the defective progeny resulting from irresponsible and unintelligent breeding."[117] In personal correspondence she expressed her sadness about the aggressive and lethal Nazi eugenics program; and donated to the American Council Against Nazi Propaganda.[116] In addition, Sanger believed the responsibility for birth control should remain with able-minded individual parents rather than the state, and that self-determining motherhood was the only unshakable foundation for racial betterment.[118][119]
Margaret Sanger justified her decision to speak to a Ku Klux Klan group by explaining, "to me any aroused group is a good group."[120]:366–367 She was closely associated with one of the most influential and extreme racist[121] authors in America in the 1920s and 1930s, the klansman and Nazi sympathizer Lothrop Stoddard.[122]:173 Chesler comments:
Margaret Sanger was never herself a racist, but she lived in a profoundly bigoted society, and her failure to repudiate prejudice – especially when it was manifest among proponents of her cause – has haunted her ever since.[19]:15
Abortion[edit]
During the years of her greatest influence she opposed abortion and sharply distinguished between birth control, which she saw as a fundamental right of women, and access to abortion, which she did not see as such a right.[123]:36–37[19]:125 Already in 1916 when she opened her first birth control clinic she was employing harsh rhetoric against abortion. Flyers she distributed to women exhorted them in all capitals: "Do not kill, do not take life, but prevent."[124]:155 Sanger's patients were told "that abortion was the wrong way – no matter how early it was performed it was taking life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way – it took a little time, a little trouble, but it was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun."[120]:217 Sanger consistently distanced herself from any calls for legal access to abortion, arguing that legal access to contraceptives would remove the need for abortion.[125] Ann Hibner Koblitz has argued that Sanger's anti-abortion stance contributed to the further stigmatization of abortion and impeded the growth of the broader reproductive rights movement.[126]:182–188
Legacy[edit]
Sanger's writings are curated by two universities: New York University's history department maintains the Margaret Sanger Papers Project,[127] and Smith College's Sophia Smith Collection maintains the Margaret Sanger Papers collection.[128]
Sanger's story also features in several biographies, including David Kennedy's biography Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger (1970), which won the Bancroft Prize and the John Gilmary Shea Prize. She is also the subject of the television films Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger (1980),[129] and Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story (1995).[130] In 2013, the American cartoonist Peter Bagge published Woman Rebel, a full-length graphic-novel biography of Sanger.
Sanger has been recognized with several honors. Her speech "Children's Era", given in 1925, is listed as #81 in American Rhetoric's Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century (listed by rank).[131][132] Sanger was an inspiration for Wonder Woman, a comic-book character introduced by William Marston in 1941. Marston was influenced by early feminist thought while in college, and later formed a romantic relationship with Sanger's niece, Olive Byrne.[133][134] According to Jill Lepore, several Wonder Woman story lines were at least in part inspired by Sanger, like the character's involvement with different labor strikes and protests.[134] Between (and including) 1953 and 1963 Sanger was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 31 times.[135] In 1957, the American Humanist Association named her Humanist of the Year. In 1966 Planned Parenthood began issuing its Margaret Sanger Awards annually to honor "individuals of distinction in recognition of excellence and leadership in furthering reproductive health and reproductive rights".[136] The 1979 artwork The Dinner Party features a place setting for her.[137][138] In 1993 the United States National Park Service designated the Margaret Sanger Clinic—where she provided birth-control services in New York in the mid-twentieth century—as a National Historic Landmark.[139] As well, government authorities and other institutions have memorialized Sanger by dedicating several landmarks in her name, including a residential building on the Stony Brook University campus, a room in Wellesley College's library,[140] and Margaret Sanger Square in New York City's Noho area.[141] There is a bust of Sanger in the National Portrait Gallery, which was a gift from Cordelia Scaife May.[142][143] Sanger, a crater in the northern hemisphere of Venus, takes its name from Margaret Sanger.
Due to her connection with Planned Parenthood, many who oppose abortion frequently condemn Sanger by criticizing her views on birth control and eugenics.[144][145][note 7] In spite of such controversies, Sanger continues to be regarded[by whom?] as a force in the American reproductive rights movement and women's rights movement.
Works[edit]
Books and pamphlets
What Every Mother Should Know – Originally published in 1911 or 1912, based on a series of articles Sanger published in 1911 in the New York Call, which were, in turn, based on a set of lectures Sanger gave to groups of Socialist party women in 1910–1911.[146] Multiple editions published through the 1920s, by Max N. Maisel and Sincere Publishing, with the title What Every Mother Should Know, or how six little children were taught the truth ... Online (1921 edition, Michigan State University)
Family Limitation – Originally published 1914 as a 16-page pamphlet; also published in several later editions. Online (1917, 6th edition, Michigan State University); Online (1920 English edition, Bakunin Press, revised by author from 9th American edition);
What Every Girl Should Know – Originally published 1916 by Max N. Maisel; 91 pages; also published in several later editions. Online (1920 edition); Online (1922 ed., Michigan State University)
The Case for Birth Control: A Supplementary Brief and Statement of Facts – May 1917, published to provide information to the court in a legal proceeding. Online (Internet Archive)
Woman and the New Race, 1920, Truth Publishing, foreword by Havelock Ellis. Online (Harvard University); Online (Project Gutenberg); Online (Internet Archive); Audio on Archive.org
Debate on Birth Control – 1921, text of a debate between Sanger, Theodore Roosevelt, Winter Russell, George Bernard Shaw, Robert L. Wolf, and Emma Sargent Russell. Published as issue 208 of Little Blue Book series by Haldeman-Julius Co. Online (1921, Michigan State University)
The Pivot of Civilization, 1922, Brentanos. Online (1922, Project Gutenberg); Online (1922, Google Books)
Motherhood in Bondage, 1928, Brentanos. Online (Google Books).
My Fight for Birth Control, 1931, New York: Farrar & Rinehart
An Autobiography. New York, NY: Cooper Square Press. 1938. ISBN 0-8154-1015-8.
Fight for Birth Control, 1916, New York[147] (The Library of Congress)
Birth Control A Parent's Problem or Women's?" The Birth Control Review, Mar. 1919, 6–7.
Periodicals
The Woman Rebel – Seven issues published monthly from March 1914 to August 1914. Sanger was publisher and editor.
Birth Control Review – Published monthly from February 1917 to 1940. Sanger was Editor until 1929, when she resigned from the ABCL.[148] Not to be confused with Birth Control News, published by the London-based Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress.
Collections and anthologies
Sanger, Margaret, The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 1: The Woman Rebel, 1900–1928, Esther Katz, Cathy Moran Hajo, Peter Engelman (eds), University of Illinois Press, 2003
Sanger, Margaret, The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 2: Birth Control Comes of Age, 1928–1939, Esther Katz, Cathy Moran Hajo, Peter Engelman (eds), University of Illinois Press, 2007
Sanger, Margaret, The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 3: The Politics of Planned Parenthood, 1939–1966, Esther Katz, Cathy Moran Hajo, Peter Engelman (eds), University of Illinois Press, 2010
Works by Margaret Sanger at Project Gutenberg
The Margaret Sanger Papers at Smith College
The Margaret Sanger Papers Project at New York University
McElderry, Michael J. (1976). "Margaret Sanger: A Register of Her Papers in the Library of Congress". Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Archived from the original on March 29, 2009. Retrieved March 30, 2009.
Correspondence between Sanger and McCormick, from The Pill documentary movie; supplementary material, PBS, American Experience (producers). online.
Speeches
Sanger, Margaret, "The Morality of Birth Control" 1921.
Sanger, Margaret, "The Children's Era" 1925.
Sanger, Margaret, "Woman And The Future" 1937.
See also[edit]
Biography portal
Feminism portal
United States portal
Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story
Anthony Comstock
Mary Ware Dennett
Emma Goldman
Feminism
History of women in the United States
List of women's rights activists
Margaret Mead
Fania Mindell
Caroline Nelson
Reproductive rights
Upton Sinclair
Mabel Sine Wadsworth
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ They became estranged in 1913, but the divorce was not finalized until 1921.[1]
Jump up ^ The slogan "No Gods, No Masters" originated in a flyer distributed by the IWW in the 1912 Lawrence textile strike.
Jump up ^ The first issue of Birth Control Review was published in February 1917.
Jump up ^ Caption at the bottom of this 1919 issue reads: "Must She Always Plead in Vain? 'You are a nurse—can you tell me? For the children's sake—help me!'"
Jump up ^ Date of merger recorded as 1938 (not 1939) in: O'Conner, Karen, Gender and Women's Leadership: A Reference Handbook, p. 743. O'Conner cites Gordon (1976).
Jump up ^ In 1965, the case had struck down one of the remaining contraception-related Comstock laws in Connecticut and Massachusetts. However, Griswold only applied to marital relationships. A later case, Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972), extended the Griswold holding to unmarried persons as well.
Jump up ^ Typical pro-life publications critical of Sanger include theologian Angela Franks', Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy: The Control of Female Fertility, McFarland, 2005 and her "Contraception and Catholicism: What the Church Teaches and Why", Pauline Books & Media, 2013.
References[edit]
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Jump up ^ Editors, The (1 June 2012). "Political Attacks on Planned Parenthood Are a Threat to Women's Health". Scientific American. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
^ Jump up to: a b Douglas, Emily (1970). Margaret Sanger: Pioneer of the Future. Canada: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. p. 57.
^ Jump up to: a b Benjamin, Hazel C. (January 1, 1938). "Lobbying for Birth Control". The Public Opinion Quarterly. 2 (1): 48–60. JSTOR 2745054.
Jump up ^ Katz 2000.
^ Jump up to: a b "People & Events: Eugenics and Birth Control". PBS. Retrieved August 6, 2015.
Jump up ^ Vicki Cox (January 1, 2009). Margaret Sanger. Infobase Publishing. pp. 7–. ISBN 978-1-4381-0759-2.
Jump up ^ Cox 2004, p. 3–4.
Jump up ^ Pollitt, Katha. "Abortion in American History". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2017-02-02.
Jump up ^ Sanger, Margaret (1917). Family Limitation (PDF). p. 5. Retrieved 2016-03-11. No one can doubt that there are times where an abortion is justifiable but they can become unnecessary when care is taken to prevent conception. This is the only cure for abortion.
Jump up ^ Wangui Muigai (Spring 2010). "Looking Uptown: Margaret Sanger and the Harlem Branch Birth Control Clinic". The Newsletter (#54). The Margaret Sanger Papers Project.
Jump up ^ Klapper, Melissa R. (August 22, 2014). Ballots, Babies, and Banners of Peace: American Jewish Women’s Activism, 1890–1940. NYU Press. pp. 137–138. ISBN 9781479850594.
Jump up ^ History of the Corning-Painted Post Area, p. 240
Jump up ^ Sanger, Margaret, The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger, Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, pp. 1–3.
Jump up ^ "Margaret Sanger". Infidels.org. Retrieved March 12, 2012. ; Rosalind Rosenberg, Divided lives: American women in the twentieth century, p. 82.
Jump up ^ Baker, p. 3, 11
Jump up ^ Cooper, James L.; Cooper, Sheila M. (1973). The Roots of American Feminist Thought. Alvin and Bacon. p. 219. ASIN B002VY8L0O.
Jump up ^ Sanger, Margaret. Autobiography (New York: Norton, 1938), p. 13; Katz, Esther, et al., eds, The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Vol. 1: The "Woman Rebel" 1900–1928 (Urbana: Illinois University Press, 2003), pp. 4–5.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Chesler, Ellen (1992). Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-8070-4439-1.
Jump up ^ Dietrich 2010; Engelman 2011, p. 32; Blanchard 1992, p. 50; Coates 2008, p. 49
Jump up ^ Endres, Kathleen L., Women's Periodicals in the United States: social and political issues, p. 448; Endres cites Sanger, An Autobiography, pp. 95–96. Endres cites Kennedy, p. 19, as pointing out that some materials on birth control were available in 1913.
Jump up ^ Lader (1955), pp. 44–50.
Baker, pp. 49–51.
Kennedy, pp. 16–18.
^ Jump up to: a b Viney, Wayne; King, D. A. (2003). A History of Psychology: Ideas and Context. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. ISBN 0-205-33582-9.
Jump up ^ Jill Lepore, The Secret History of Wonder Woman, 2014, ISBN 0804173400
Jump up ^ Composite story: The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 1, p. 185. This source identifies the source of Sanger's quote as: "Birth Control", Library of Congress collection of Sanger's papers: microfilm: reel 129: frame 12, April 1916.
Jump up ^ Streitmatter, Rodger (2001). Voices of Revolution: The Dissident Press in America. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 169. ISBN 0-231-12249-7.
Jump up ^ Cox, p. 76.
Jump up ^ Margaret Sanger: Pioneer of the Future pp. 178–80.
Jump up ^ Kennedy, pp. 1, 22.
Jump up ^ Sanger, Margaret, The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger, Mineola, New York: Dover Printing Publications Inc., 2004, pp. 111–112.
Jump up ^ Katz, The selected papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 1, p. 70.
Jump up ^ Galvin, Rachel. Margaret Sanger's "Deeds of Terrible Virtue" Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, September/October 1998, Vol. 19/Number 5.
Jump up ^ Engelman, Peter C., "Margaret Sanger", article in Encyclopedia of Leadership, Volume 4, George R. Goethals, et al (eds), SAGE, 2004, p. 1382.
Engelman cites facsimile edited by Alex Baskin, Woman Rebel, New York: Archives of Social History, 1976. Facsimile of original.
Jump up ^ Katz, Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Vol. 1.
^ Jump up to: a b McCann 2010, pp. 750–51.
^ Jump up to: a b Baker, p.268
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Jump up ^ Greer, Germaine (1984). Sex and Destiny. Secker and Warburg. p. 306.
Jump up ^ Green, Stephanie (October 6, 2015). "The Public Lives of Charlotte and Marie Stopes". Routledge – via Google Books.
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Jump up ^ Haight, Anne Lyon (1935). Banned books: informal notes on some books banned for various reasons at various times and in various places. New York: R.R. Bowker Company. p. 65.
Jump up ^ "Anthony Comstock Dies in His Crusade". Reading Eagle. Reading, Pennsylvania. September 22, 1915. p. 6.
Jump up ^ Quindlen, Anna (August 25, 2010). "Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private". Random House Publishing Group – via Google Books.
Jump up ^ "Margaret Sanger – 20th Century Hero" (PDF). Planned Parenthood. p. 8.
Jump up ^ Selected Papers, vol 1, p. 199.
Baker, p. 115.
Jump up ^ Margaret Sanger: Pioneer to the Future, p. 109.
Jump up ^ Engelman, p. 101.
Jump up ^ "First woman in US given English dose". The Seattle Star. January 27, 1917. p. 1. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
Jump up ^ "Mrs. Byrne pardoned; pledged to obey law;" (PDF). New York Times. February 2, 1917. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
Jump up ^ Lepore, Jill (November 14, 2011). "Birthright: What's next for Planned Parenthood?". The New Yorker. Retrieved November 13, 2011.
^ Jump up to: a b Cox, p. 65.
Jump up ^ Engelman, pp. 101–3.
Jump up ^ McCann, 2010, p. 751.
Jump up ^ Freedman, Estelle B., The essential feminist reader, Random House Digital, Inc., 2007, p. 211.
Jump up ^ "Birth control: What it is, How it works, What it will do", The Proceedings of the First American Birth Control Conference, November 11, 12, 1921, pp. 207–8.
The Birth Control Review, Vol. V, No. 12, December 1921, Margaret Sanger (ed.), p. 18.
Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, 2001 reprint edited by Michael W. Perry, p. 409.
These principles were adopted at the first meeting of the ABCL in late 1921.
Jump up ^ Baker, p. 196.
Jump up ^ Baker, pp. 196–97.
The Selected Papers, Vol 2, p. 54.
Jump up ^ Chesler, pp. 277, 293, 558.
Harr, John Ensor; Johnson, Peter J. (1988). The Rockefeller Century: Three Generations of America's Greatest Family. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. pp. 191, 461–62. —crucial, anonymous Rockefeller grants to the Clinical Research Bureau and support for population control
Jump up ^ Katz, Esther; Sanger, Margaret, The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger Volume 1: The Woman Rebel, University of Illinois Press, 2003, p. 430.
Jump up ^ Cohen, pp. 64–5.
Jump up ^ Baker, p. 275.
Katō, Shidzue, Facing Two Ways: the story of my life, Stanford University Press, 1984, p. xxviii.
D'Itri, Patricia Ward, Cross Currents in the International Women's Movement, 1848–1948, Popular Press, 1999, pp. 163–67.
Jump up ^ Katz, Esther (ed.); Sanger, Margaret, The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger Volume 1: The Woman Rebel 1900–1928, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003, p. 421.
Jump up ^ McCann (1994), pp. 177–8.
"MSPP > About > Birth Control Organizations > Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau". Nyu.edu. October 18, 2005. Retrieved October 7, 2009.
Jump up ^ Sanger, Margaret (1938). The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger. W. W. Norton. p. 366. ISBN 0-486-43492-3.
Jump up ^ Sanger, Margaret (1938). Margaret Sanger, An Autobiography. New York: W. W. Norton. pp. 361, 366–7.
Jump up ^ Baker, p. 161.
Jump up ^ ""Motherhood in Bondage," #6, Winter 1993/4". Margaret Sanger Papers Project. Retrieved April 9, 2011.
Jump up ^ The number of letters is reported as "a quarter million", "over a million", or "hundreds of thousands" in various sources
Jump up ^ 500 letters: Cohen, p. 65.
Jump up ^ Sanger, Margaret (2000). Motherhood in bondage. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press. ISBN 0-8142-0837-1.
Jump up ^ Baker, p. 200.
Jump up ^ Hajo, p. 85.
Jump up ^ "Duboishomesite.org" (PDF).
Jump up ^ "NAACP History: W.E.B. Dubois". naacp.org. Archived from the original on March 12, 2016. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Martin Luther King 's Speech in Honor of WEB Dubois by Norman Markowitz". politicalaffairs.net. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
Jump up ^ Hajo, p. 85.
From Planned Parenthood: "The Truth about Margaret Sanger". Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Archived from the original on March 17, 2010. :
In 1930, Sanger opened a family planning clinic in Harlem that sought to enlist support for contraceptive use and to bring the benefits of family planning to women who were denied access to their city's health and social services. Staffed by a black physician and a black social worker, the clinic was endorsed by The Amsterdam News (the powerful local newspaper), the Abyssinian Baptist Church, the Urban League, and the black community's elder statesman, W. E. B. Du Bois.
Jump up ^ McCann (1994), pp. 150–4. Bigotry: p. 153.
See also p. 45, The selected papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 1
Jump up ^ Planned Parenthood Federation of America (2004). "The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Upon Accepting the Planned Parenthood Sanger Award". Retrieved 2016-03-11.
Jump up ^ Engelman, p. 175.
Birth Control Federation of America Archived December 1, 2008, at the Wayback Machine., The Margaret Sanger Papers Project
"Birth Control or Race Control? Sanger and the Negro Project". Margaret Sanger Papers Project Newsletter. Margaret Sanger Papers Project (28). November 14, 2002. Retrieved January 25, 2009.
Jump up ^ "The Demonization of Margaret Sanger". Margaret Sanger Papers Project Newsletter (16). 1997. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Birth Control or Race Control? Sanger and the Negro Project". Margaret Sanger Papers Project Newsletter. Margaret Sanger Papers Project (28). November 14, 2002. Retrieved January 25, 2009.
Jump up ^ Margaret Sanger Papers Project (April 2010). "Smear-n-Fear". News & Sanger Sightings. New York University. Archived from the original on November 2, 2011. Retrieved November 27, 2016. CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
Jump up ^ "National Committee on Federal Legislation on Birth Control". NYU Margaret Sanger Papers Project
Jump up ^ Rose, Melody, Abortion: a documentary and reference guide, ABC-CLIO, 2008, p. 29.
^ Jump up to: a b "'Biographical Note', Smith College, Margaret Sangers Papers". Asteria.fivecolleges.edu. September 6, 1966. Retrieved March 12, 2012.
Jump up ^ NYU Margaret Sanger Papers Project "Birth Control Council of America"
Jump up ^ The Margaret Sanger Papers (2010). "MSPP > About > Birth Control Organizations > PPFA". nyu.edu. Retrieved October 17, 2011.
Jump up ^ NYU Sanger project
Jump up ^ Ford, Lynne E., Encyclopedia of Women and American Politics, p. 406.
Esser-Stuart, Joan E., "Margaret Higgins Sanger", in Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America, Herrick, John and Stuart, Paul (eds), SAGE, 2005, p. 323.
Jump up ^ Engelman, Peter, "McCormick, Katharine Dexter", in Encyclopedia of Birth Control, Vern L. Bullough (ed.), ABC-CLIO, 2001, pp. 170–1.
Marc A. Fritz, Leon Speroff, Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology and Infertility, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2010, pp. 959–960.
Jump up ^ Baker, p. 307.
Jump up ^ "Margaret Sanger obituary". Toledo Blade. September 6, 1966. Retrieved July 27, 2014.
Jump up ^ Sanger, Margaret, The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger, Mineola, New York: Dover Publications Inc., 2004, p. 94.
Jump up ^ Cox, p. 55.
Jump up ^ Kennedy, p. 127.
^ Jump up to: a b The Mike Wallace Interview, Guest: Margaret Sanger, 9/21/57.
Jump up ^ Sanger, Margaret (December 29, 1912), "What Every Girl Should Know: Sexual Impulses – Part II", New York Call – via The Margaret Sanger Papers Project
Jump up ^ Bronski, Michael (2011). A Queer History of the United States. Beacon Press. p. 100.
Jump up ^ Sanger, Margaret, The Pivot of Civilization, Amherst, New York: Humanity Books, 2003, p. 204.
Jump up ^ Margaret Sanger, "What Every Girl Should Know: Sexual Impulse – Part I", December 22, 1912.
Jump up ^ Bronski, Michael, A Queer History of the United States, Beacon Press, 2011.
Quotes from Sanger, "What Every Girl should know: Sexual Impulses Part II", in New York Call, December 29, 1912; also in the subsequent book What Every Girl Should Know, pp. 40–48; reprinted in The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 1, pp. 41–5 (quotes on p. 45).
Jump up ^ "The Child Who Was Mother to a Woman" from The New Yorker, April 11, 1925, p. 11.
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Davis, Tom, Sacred work: Planned Parenthood and its clergy alliances Rutgers University Press, 2005, p. 213 (citing A Tradition of Choice, Planned Parenthood, 1991, p. 18).
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Sanger's quote from The Pivot of Civilization, p. 100.
Jump up ^ Sanger, Margaret (February 1919). "Birth Control and Racial Betterment". Birth Control Review. 3 (2): 11–12. Retrieved September 20, 2015.
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Jump up ^ Lader, Lawrence (1995). A Private Matter: RU486 and the Abortion Crisis. Prometheus Books. ISBN 9781573920124.
Jump up ^ Sanger, Margaret (1931). My Fight for Birth Control. Farrar & Rinehart. ASIN B0045FG280.
Jump up ^ At this time several other prominent advocates for birth control, such as Lawrence Lader, Frederick Taussig, and William J. Robinson, saw contraception and abortion as being inextricably linked, and were calling for legalization of abortion. See Lader, Lawrence (1995). A Private Matter: RU486 and the Abortion Crisis. Prometheus Books. pp. 36–39. ISBN 9781573920124. ; Taussig, Frederick J. (1936). Abortion, Spontaneous and Induced: Medical and Social Aspects. C. V. Mosby. OCLC 00400798. ; and Robinson, William J. (1931). Doctor Robinson and Saint Peter: How Dr. Robinson Entered the Heavenly Gates and Became St. Peter's Assistant. Eugenics Publishing Company. ASIN B000R7V5XW. .
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^ Jump up to: a b Garner, Dwight (October 23, 2014). "Her Past Unchained: 'The Secret History of Wonder Woman,' by Jill Lepore". New York Times.
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Sanger, Margaret (1922), The Pivot of Civilization, New York: Brentano's, ISBN 978-0-8277-2004-6
Sanger, Margaret (1938), Autobiography of Margaret Sanger, City: Dover Publications, ISBN 978-0-486-12083-6
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Viney, Wayne; King, D. A. (2003), A history of psychology : ideas and context, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, ISBN 978-0-205-33582-4
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