Margaret Sanger began her long journey to aiding women all over the United States and even foreign countries almost one hundred years ago. This struggle to make life safer, happier, healthier, and over all a better place did not happen over night. Margaret Sanger dedicated her life to women and the need for some from of birth control.
Margaret was born into an Irish working-class family, she witnessed her mother's death due to being worn out from 18 pregnancies, and only 11 live births. As she grew up she saw women at the hospital she worked at, being deprived of their health, sexuality, and their ability to care for their children already born, due to numerous pregnancies. This is what began here life long fight for contraceptives.
Margaret began this path to a new freedom in 1914 when she launched The Woman Rebel, which was a feminist monthly that advocated birth control. By 1916, she had opened the first family-planning clinic, in Brooklyn, N.Y.; for this was horrid at the time and Margaret was jailed for thirty days. In 1921, she found the "The American Birth Control League," this was the beginnings of the Planned Parenthood Federation that would open in 1942, in which is now run by one of her children.
She published a series of articles called "What Every Girl Should Know," and then began having these articles put in local clinics that gave out woman-controlled forms of birth control.
She began organizing the first international population conference. This would expand her works as far as Japan and India. Her thoughts and feelings were flourishing all over the world due to her openness. According to Sanger, the best argument in the world for birth control was China.
