By this control I mean the right to decide when or when not to bring a child into this world. ... Sanger's quest began long before the public knew her. ... A free thinker, and outspoken radical, her father, Michael Higgins, influenced his young daughter to act the same way; question everything and stand up for what she believed in. ... For example, my grandmother, born in 1921, was able to give birth to her two children and choose not to have any more children. As a child she would have never been able to make that choice. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Her parents were divorced, but her and her siblings still spent time with their father. ... She anxiously a waited for her period but it never came. ... A lot of teen pregnancies that occur, if the mother decides to have the baby the fathers don't always stay in the picture and now that child will grow up without a father. ... Like, "what if my parents find out or my partner's parents, we could get in trouble with the law." ... Planned Parenthood is the world's largest and most trusted voluntary organization, founded by Margaret Sanger in 1916. ...

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Since abortion was legalized in 1973, as I stated before, approximately 1,500,000 babies have been aborted each year. ... The following are directly taken from a large featured article written by Margaret Sanger in the American Weekly Magazine in 1934. ... No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child, no man shall have the right to become a father, without a permit for parenthood. ... Their goal has not even and from my point of view will never be a reality. ...

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• Grade Level: High School