Females have battled society for "women's rights" for centuries. Any right that women have wanted, they have had to fight for. There have been many great women who have dedicated their whole life to fight for a women's cause. Helen Hunt Jackson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Margaret Sanger are all honorable women of history making great contributions. Women have overcome many struggles such as, the right to vote in elections, equal opportunity in the work force, and even the control over their own bodies. By this control I mean the right to decide when or when not to bring a child into this world.
Until 1914, American women had not received any knowledge about the prevention of pregnancy, or even sex education. Many wives would stay pregnant throughout their entire life, having up to fifteen children or more. Health was also a major concern, women's bodies gradually got weaker after having so many children. In a time period when sex was not spoken or heard about, a woman pioneer, Margaret Sanger, jumped in and introduced the idea of "birth control", and in 1921 she founded the American Birth Control League.
Sanger's quest began long before the public knew her. It started when she was just a young girl. 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. Sanger's mother, Anna, bore ten children other than Margaret, causing her to be both constantly pregnant and constantly sick, leaving little time for her children. She died at an early age to tuberculosis, which Sanger attributed to her multiple pregnancies. It was after this that Sanger decided to start helping pregnant women. She worked as a nurse in New York and became all too familiar with some horrible sights. She saw many women die of very preventable deaths due to child labor and horrible methods of self-induced abortion.
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