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Margaret Higgins Sanger was born September 14th, 1879, in Corning, New York. She started off as a nurse and then moved on to being a sex educator and birth control advocate. When she began partaking in activism, she rubbed elbows with the likes of John Reed, Upton Sinclair, Mabel Dodge, and Emma Goldman. Margaret started her efforts in sex education in 1911 when she started writing hygiene articles for the magazine //New York Call// (Wikipedia). She ventured into birth control from there in her monthly newsletters, which started ni 1915, called //The Woman Rebel// (nyu.edu). This newsletter was highly controversial and incredibly feminist. She later went on to open the first birth control clinic in the United States. From there, she founded the American Birth Control League in the midst of WWI and was a part of the creation of the foundation still around today called Planned Parenthood. She had two marriages. The first to William Sanger for 18 years and the next to Noah Slee(about.com). However, she kept the last name "Sanger" in the second marriage since it was now infamous. She died in 1966 in Arizona at the age of 86 of congestive heart failure.
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Margaret had several problems. They were that women in society were treated unfairly, did not know how to lead a healthly lifestyle, and had no means of avoiding back-alley abortions, which were common in that time (Wikipedia). In this time period, there were virtually no ways of prevents pregnancies> Margaret's mother Anne would know since she had 18 pregnancies. Back-alley abortions, which were and still are, incredibly dangerous, not to mention illegal, occurred and threatened the mothers' lives (Wikipedia).
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She solved these by being an activist. She wrote newsletters on hygiene for women. She founded the Planned Parenthood Foundation. She traveled the world to find birth control solutions. She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States. Margaret was someone who fought for what she wanted and she really did to accomplish all that she did in a span of 50 years. The Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut aided the efforts by allowing married couples to use birth control shortly before her death. Lewis,　Jone Johnson. "Margaret Sanger." //Women's History - Comprehensive Women's History Research Guide//. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Jan. 2012. . "MSPP > About Margaret Sanger > Biographical Sketch." //New York University//. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Jan. 2012. . "Margaret Sanger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." //Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia//. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Jan. 2012. .
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