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Margaret Sanger
1879–1966
A nurse, writer, and organizer who helped bring birth control into public debate, she became one of the most influential and contested reformers of the 20th century. Her work changed laws, launched organizations, and still sparks discussion today.
10 Audiobooks
The Case for Birth Control: A Supplementary Brief and Statement of Facts
by Margaret Sanger
Woman and the New Race
by Margaret Sanger
Dutch Methods of Birth Control
by Margaret Sanger
The Pivot of Civilization
by Margaret Sanger
Magnetation Methods of Birth Control
by Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger: an autobiography.
by Margaret Sanger
Family Limitation
by Margaret Sanger
What Every Girl Should Know
by Margaret Sanger
Debate on birth control. Margaret Sanger and Winter Russell
by Margaret Sanger, Winter Russell
About the author
Born in Corning, New York, in 1879, Margaret Sanger trained as a nurse and was deeply affected by the suffering she saw among poor women in New York City. Those experiences pushed her toward activism, writing, and public education about contraception at a time when even sharing such information could lead to arrest.
She went on to open the first birth control clinic in the United States in 1916 and later founded the American Birth Control League, an organization that became part of Planned Parenthood. Sanger also wrote and lectured widely, helping turn birth control from a taboo subject into a major public issue.
Her legacy is important and complicated. She is widely remembered for expanding access to contraception and shaping the reproductive rights movement, but historians and modern organizations have also pointed to her ties to eugenic ideas, which have drawn lasting criticism.