Family Limitation

Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, 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. Sanger was also a writer. She used this method to help promote her way of thinking as a way of helping other women feel safe. 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 okay to come back. Sanger never stopped trying to complete her goal- to help women realize that they could have control over their body. She was a feminist, and she wanted to fight for women's rights. Sanger's efforts contributed to several judicial cases that helped legalize contraception in the United States.