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'''Margaret Higgins Sanger''' ([[September 14]], [[1879]] – [[September 6]], [[1966]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[birth control]] activist, an advocate of [[eugenics#Meanings and types of eugenics|negative eugenics]], and the founder of the [[American Birth Control League]] (which eventually became [[Planned Parenthood]]). Initially met with fierce opposition to her ideas, Sanger gradually won some support, both in the public as well as in the courts, for a woman's choice to decide how and when, if ever, she will bear children. In her drive to open the way to universal access to birth control, Sanger was ahead of her time. However, her advocacy for eugenics are positions which have tarnished her reputation. A residential building is named after her on the [[Stony Brook University]] campus.

==Early life==

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Sanger was born in [[Corning (city), New York|Corning]], [[New York]]. Her mother, Anne Purcell Higgins, was a devout [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] who went through 18 pregnancies (with 11 live births)<ref>Steinem.</ref> before dying of [[tuberculosis]] and [[cervical cancer]]. Sanger's father, Michael Hennessy Higgins, earned his living "chiseling angels and saints out of huge blocks of white marble or gray granite for tombstones,"<ref name=father>{{cite book |author=Sanger, Margaret |year=1938 |title=Margaret Sanger, An Autobiography |location=New York |publisher=W. W. Norton |pages=p. 13}}</ref> and was also an activist for women's suffrage, free public education, and socialism. Sanger was the sixth of eleven children <ref> James L. Cooper and Sheila McIsaac Cooper, ''The Roots of American Feminist Thought'' (Alvin and Bacon, 1973), p219 </ref> and spent much of her youth assisting in household chores and care of her younger siblings.
Sanger attended Claverack College, a boarding school in [[Hudson, New York|Hudson]] for two years. Her sisters paid her tuition, and when they were unable to continue to provide this assistance, Sanger returned home in 1899. Her mother died the same year, after which Sanger enrolled in a nursing program at a hospital in [[White Plains, New York|White Plains]], an affluent New York suburb. In 1902, Margaret Higgins married architect William Sanger and the couple settled in New York City. Sanger had developed tuberculosis as a result of the care of her ill mother and her own overwork, and the Sangers moved to [[Saranac, New York]] in the Adirondacks, for health reasons. In 1903, she gave birth to her first child, Stuart.

In 1912, after a fire destroyed the home that her husband had designed, Sanger and her family moved to [[New York City]], where she went to work in the [[Lower East Side, Manhattan|East Side]] slums of [[Manhattan]]. That same year, she also started writing a column for the ''New York Call'' entitled "What Every Girl Should Know." Distributing a pamphlet, ''Family Limitation'', to women, Sanger repeatedly caused scandal and risked imprisonment by acting in defiance of the [[Comstock Law|Comstock Law of 1873]], which outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and devices.

Margaret separated from her husband William Sanger in 1913. In 1914, Sanger launched ''The Woman Rebel'', an eight page monthly newsletter promoting contraception, with the slogan "No Gods and No Masters" (and coining the term "birth control"<ref>Galvin, Rachel. [http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/1998-09/sanger.html Margaret Sanger's "Deeds of Terrible Virtue"] ''Humanities'', [[National Endowment for the Humanities]], September/October 1998, Volume 19/Number 5 </ref><ref>[http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=2157&ResourceType=Building Margaret Sanger Clinic, Statement of Significance] (September 14, 1993) [[National Historic Landmark|National Historic Landmarks Program]]</ref>) and that each woman be "the absolute mistress of her own body." She was indicted for violating U.S. postal obscenity laws in August 1914, but jumped bail and fled to England under the alias "Bertha Watson". Sanger returned to the U.S. in October 1915 and her five-year-old daughter, Peggy, died November 6. <ref>{{cite book |last= Kennedy |first= David M. |authorlink= David M. Kennedy (historian) |editor= |others= |title= Birth Control in America |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=-CojUQpSS6wC |year= 1970 |publisher= Yale University Press |isbn= 0300014953 |pages= 77 |chapter= 3 }} </ref>

Since her separation from her husband William Sanger in 1913, Margaret has had an ongoing affair with Frederick Sanger. Although concrete evidence has yet to surface, many speculate that biochemist Frederick Sanger, famous for his research on insulin, is actually the brother of William. This explains how Margaret's last name has remained unchanged between the first and second marriages. With a partner who's won 2 Nobel Prizes for his work regarding the amino acid sequence (aka Primary Structure of a Protein) of insulin, Margaret has dominated the contraceptive landscape. AP Books around the country state that Margaret has "championed" contraceptives. Now, this is simply absurd; many AP students conjure the image of a woman standing on top of a mountain of condoms and diaphragms and placing a flag in the structure to mark her accomplishment. Rather, Margaret has designed contraceptives which allow students to ignore the teachings of their public education, which calls for abstinence. Now, teenagers are more sexually active than ever, driven by the increasing availability of Margaret's work and the increasing accessibility of "mature material" (in zoos, trainers use video, aka "panda-porn", to urge pandas in captation to breed. It is believed that some veterinary students have actually watched these videos alongside the pandas and have tried to mimick the pandas' behavior from the videos, not realizing that the video is actually an educational experience intended for the animals.) Furthermore, the media, as is seen in the movie Juno, accurately depicts many teenagers in this post-Margaret Sanger age. This comes full circle... without the scientific influence of Frederick Sanger, Margaret would have little ability to design such birth control devices. Everytime we answer a question regarding the 4 levels of protein structure or amino acids, remember Frederick, and then remember Margaret; her impact will never leave us.
In efforts to honor her contributions, many AP students have urged the CollegeBoard to ask an essay question regarding the growth and development of birth control since the 1700s; in fact, some students have even spent hours talking to others online, documenting all major breakthroughs with birth control in the event of a potential birth control-based essay.

==Family planning clinics==

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On October 16, 1916, Sanger opened a family planning and birth control clinic at 46 Amboy St. in the Brownsville neighborhood of [[Brooklyn]], the first of its kind in the United States. It was raided nine days later by the police. She served 30 days in prison. An initial appeal was rejected but a state appellate court in 1918 allowed doctors to prescribe contraception.

In 1916, Sanger published ''What Every Girl Should Know,'' which was later widely distributed as one of the [[E. Haldeman-Julius]] "[[Little Blue Books]]." It provided information about such topics as [[menstruation]] and sexuality in adolescents. It was followed in 1917 by ''What Every Mother Should Know''. She also launched the monthly periodical ''The Birth Control Review and Birth Control News'' and contributed articles on health to the [[United States Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper, ''The Call''.

Sanger founded the [[American Birth Control League]] (ABCL) in 1921 with [[Lothrop Stoddard]] and [[C. C. Little]]. In 1922, she traveled to [[Japan]] to work with Japanese feminist [[Kato Shidzue]] promoting birth control; over the next several years, she would return another six times for this purpose. In this year she married her second husband, the oil tycoon, James Noah H. Slee.

In 1914, three men attempted to assassinate [[John D. Rockefeller]], the head of Standard Oil, but the bomb exploded during preparation and killed all three. In the July 1914 issue of ''The Woman Rebel'', Sanger commented on the incident, writing:

<blockquote>Even if dynamite were to serve no other purpose than to call forth the spirit of revolutionary solidarity and loyalty, it would prove its greater value. (Flynn, Daniel J. Intellectual Morons, Crown Forum, New York, New York, 2004, p. 146-147)</blockquote>

In 1923, under the auspices of the ABCL, she established the Clinical Research Bureau. It was the first legal birth control clinic in the U.S. (renamed Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in 1940). It received crucial grants from [[John D. Rockefeller, Jr.]]'s Bureau of [[Social hygiene|Social Hygiene]] from 1924 onwards, which were made anonymously to avoid public exposure of the Rockefeller name to her agenda. The family also consistently supported her ongoing efforts in regard to population control.<small><ref>Crucial, anonymous Rockefeller grants to the Clinical Research Bureau and support for population control - see
John Ensor Harr, and Peter J. Johnson. ''The Rockefeller Century: Three Generations of America's Greatest Family''. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988. (pp.191, 461-62)</ref></small>

Also in 1923, she formed the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control and served as its president until its dissolution in 1937 after birth control, under medical supervision, was legalized in many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first [[World Population Conference]] in [[Geneva]].

Between 1921 and 1926, Sanger received over a million letters from mothers requesting information on birth control.{{cn|date=March 2008}} From 1916 on, she lectured "in many places—halls, churches, women's clubs, homes, theaters" to "many types of audiences—cotton workers, churchmen, liberals, Socialists, scientists, clubmen, and fashionable, philanthropically minded women."<ref>{{cite book |title= The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger |last= Sanger |first= Margaret |authorlink= Margaret Sanger |coauthors= |year= 2004 |publisher= Courier Dover Publications |location= |isbn= 0486434923 |pages= 366 }}</ref>

In 1926, in what she called "one of the weirdest experiences I had in lecturing," Sanger even gave a lecture on birth control to the [[WKKK|women's auxiliary of the Ku Klux Klan]] in Silver Lake, [[New Jersey]], a group she found so ignorant she had to use only "the most elementary terms, as though I were trying to make children understand."<ref name = wkkk/> Sanger's talk was well-received by the group and as a result "a dozen invitations to similar groups were proffered."<ref name=wkkk>{{cite book |author=Sanger, Margaret |year=1938 |title=Margaret Sanger, An Autobiography |location=New York |publisher=W. W. Norton |pages=pp. 361, 366-7}}</ref> In September 1930, she received at home the Nazi anthropologist [[Eugen Fischer]].<ref>[[François-Marie Algoud]], ''La Peste et le choléra: Marx, Hitler, et leurs héritiers'', Chiré, 2000, p.68</ref><ref>Désiré Dutonnerre, ''La Marée noire de la pornographie'', Chiré, 1992, pp.213-214</ref>

Additionally, Sanger also had offending words for [[Catholics]] when she stated that she believed that they were “black moles…invading our buildings of democracy.”{{cn|date=March 2008}}

In 1928, Sanger resigned as the president of the ABCL. Two years later, she became president of the Birth Control International Information Center. In January 1932, she addressed the [[New History Society]], an organization founded by [[Mirza Ahmad Sohrab]] and [[Julia Lynch Olin|Julie Chanler]]; this address would later become the basis for an article entitled ''A Plan for Peace''.<ref name=pouzzner>Pouzzner.</ref> In 1937, Sanger became chairperson of the Birth Control Council of America and launched two publications, ''The Birth Control Review'' and ''The Birth Control News''. From 1939 to 1942, she was an honorary delegate of the Birth Control Federation of America. From 1952 to 1959, she served as president of the [[International Planned Parenthood Federation]]; at the time, the largest private international "family planning" organization.

During the 1960 presidential elections, Sanger was dismayed by candidate [[John F. Kennedy]]'s position on birth control (Kennedy did not believe birth control should be a matter of government policy). She threatened to leave the country if Kennedy were elected, but evidently reconsidered after Kennedy won the election.

In the early 1960s, Sanger promoted the use of the newly available [[combined oral contraceptive pill|birth control pill]]. She toured Europe, Africa, and Asia, lecturing and helping to establish clinics.

Sanger died in 1966 in [[Tucson, Arizona]], eight days from her 87th birthday and only a few months after the ''[[Griswold v. Connecticut]]'' decision, which legalized birth control for married couples in the U.S., the apex of her 50-year agenda.

Sanger's books include ''Woman and the New Race'' (1920), ''Happiness in Marriage'' (1926), ''My Fight For Birth Control'' (1931), and an autobiography (1938).

==Philosophy==
Although Sanger was greatly influenced by her father, her mother's death left her with a deep sense of dissatisfaction concerning her own and society's understanding of women's health and childbirth. She also criticized the censorship of her message about sexuality and contraceptives by the civil and religious authorities as an effort by men to keep women in submission. An atheist, Sanger attacked Christian leaders opposed to her message, accusing them of [[Obscurantism]] and insensitivity to women's concerns. Sanger was particularly critical of the lack of awareness of the dangers of and the scarcity of treatment opportunities for [[venereal disease]] among women. She claimed that these social ills were the result of the male establishment's intentionally keeping women in ignorance. Sanger also deplored the contemporary absence of regulations requiring registration of people diagnosed with venereal diseases (which she contrasted with mandatory registration of those with infectious diseases such as [[measles]]).

Sanger was also an avowed [[Socialism|socialist]], blaming the evils of contemporary [[capitalism]] for the unsatisfactory conditions of the young white working-class women. Her very personal views on this issue are evident in the last pages of ''What Every Girl Should Know''.

===Psychology of sexuality===
While Sanger's understanding of and practical approach to human physiology were progressive for her times, her thoughts on the psychology of human sexuality place her squarely in the pre-[[Freud]]ian 19th century. Birth control, it would appear, was for her more a means to limit the undesirable side-effects of sex than a way of liberating men and women to enjoy it. In ''What Every Girl Should Know'', she wrote: "Every normal man and woman has the power to control and direct his sexual impulse. Men and woman who have it in control and constantly use their brain cells thinking deeply, are never sensual." Sexuality, for her, was a kind of weakness, and surmounting it indicated strength:

<blockquote>Though sex cells are placed in a part of the anatomy for the essential purpose of easily expelling them into the female for the purpose of reproduction, there are other elements in the sexual fluid which are the essence of blood, nerve, brain, and muscle. When redirected in to the building and strengthening of these, we find men or women of the greatest endurance greatest magnetic power. A girl can waste her creative powers by brooding over a love affair to the extent of exhausting her system, with the results not unlike the effects of masturbation and debauchery.<ref>Sanger, "What Every Girl Should Know", 1920, p. 46 [http://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/AmRad/whateverygirl1920.pdf (PDF available here)]</ref></blockquote>

Her thoughts on human development were also laden with [[racism]]:

<blockquote>It is said that a fish as large as a man has a brain no larger than the kernel of an almond. In all fish and reptiles where there is no great brain development, there is also no conscious sexual control. The lower down in the scale of human development we go the less sexual control we find. It is said that the [[aboriginal Australian]], the lowest known species of the human family, just a step higher than the chimpanzee in brain development, has so little sexual control that police authority alone prevents him from obtaining sexual satisfaction on the streets.<ref>Sanger, "What Every Girl Should Know", 1920, p. 47</ref></blockquote>

Sanger, like most of the population of her time, also considered [[masturbation]] dangerous:
<blockquote>In my experience as a trained nurse while attending persons afflicted with various and often revolting diseases, no matter what their ailments, I have never found any one so repulsive as the chronic masturbator. It would be difficult not to fill page upon page of heartrending confessions made by young girls, whose lives were blighted by this pernicious habit, always begun so innocently, for even after they have ceased the habit, they find themselves incapable of any relief in the natural act. [...] Perhaps the greatest physical danger to the chronic masturbator is the inability to perform the sexual act naturally.<ref>Sanger, "What Every Girl Should Know", 1920, pp. 39-40</ref></blockquote>

For her, masturbation was not just a physical act, it was a mental state:
<blockquote>In the boy or girl past puberty, we find one of the most dangerous forms of masturbation, i.e., mental masturbation, which consists of forming mental pictures, or thinking obscene or voluptuous pictures. This form is considered especially harmful to the brain, for the habit becomes so fixed that it is almost impossible to free the thoughts from lustful pictures.<ref>Sanger, "What Every Girl Should Know", 1920, p. 39</ref></blockquote>

=== Eugenics and euthanasia ===
Sanger was a proponent of [[eugenics]], a social philosophy that gained strong support in the United States in the early 20th century. The philosophy claimed that human hereditary traits can be improved through social intervention. Methods of social intervention (targeted at those seen as "genetically unfit") advocated by eugenists have included [[Artificial selection|selective breeding]], [[Sterilization (surgical procedure)|sterilization]] and [[euthanasia]]. In "A Plan for Peace" (1932), for example, Sanger argued for:

<blockquote>A stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.<ref>Sanger, "A Plan For Peace", ''Birth Control Review,'' April 1932, p. 106</ref></blockquote>

Her first pamphlet read:

<blockquote>It is a vicious cycle; ignorance breeds poverty and poverty breeds ignorance. There is only one cure for both, and that is to stop breeding these things. Stop bringing to birth children whose inheritance cannot be one of health or intelligence. Stop bringing into the world children whose parents cannot provide for them. Herein lies the key of civilization. For upon the foundation of an enlightened and voluntary motherhood shall a future civilization emerge.<ref>Sanger, ''What Every Boy and Girl Should Know,'' 1915, p. 140</ref></blockquote>

Sanger promoted the idea of "[[Racial hygiene|race hygiene]]" through "negative eugenics," an attempt to reduce the fertility of "[[Dysgenics|dysgenic]]" groups. Sanger considered the unchecked multiplication of the "unfit" to be "the greatest present menace to civilization."<ref>Margaret Sanger. "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda", Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5</ref> She suggested Congress set up a special department to study population problems and appoint a "Parliament of Population." One of the main objectives of the "Population Congress" would be "to raise the level and increase the general intelligence of population."<ref>Margaret Sanger. "The Function of Sterilization." Birth Control Review, October 1926, p. 299</ref>

Sanger saw birth control as a means to prevent "dysgenic" children from being born into a disadvantaged life, and dismissed "positive eugenics" (which promoted greater fertility for the "fitter" upper classes) as impractical. Though many leaders in the eugenics movement were calling for active euthanasia of the "unfit," Sanger spoke out against such methods. Edwin Black writes:

<blockquote>In [William] Robinson's book, ''Eugenics, Marriage and Birth Control (Practical Eugenics),'' he advocated gassing the children of the unfit. In plain words, Robinson insisted: 'The best thing would be to gently chloroform these children or give them a dose of potassium cyanide.' Margaret Sanger was well aware that her fellow birth control advocates were promoting lethal chambers, but she herself rejected the idea completely. 'Nor do we believe,' wrote Sanger in ''Pivot of Civilization,'' 'that the community could or should send to the lethal chamber the defective progeny resulting from irresponsible and unintelligent breeding.'<ref name=black-251>Black (''The War Against the Weak''), 251.</ref></blockquote>

When Nazi Germany adopted the principles of eugenics to create a Germanic "master race," Sanger did not publicly denounce the racist and anti-Semitic program of the Nazis. However, in a letter she wrote:
<blockquote> "All the news from Germany is sad & horrible, and to me more dangerous than any other war going on any where because it has so many good people who applaud the atrocities & claim its right. The sudden antagonism in Germany against the Jews & the vitriolic hatred of them is spreading underground here & is far more dangerous than the aggressive policy of the Japanese in Manchuria.."<ref name=pouzzner /></blockquote>

About placing the responsibility for eugenic control in the hands of individual parents rather than the state, she wrote:
<blockquote>"The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.... We are convinced that racial regeneration, like individual regeneration, must come 'from within.' That is, it must be autonomous, self-directive, and not imposed from without."<ref>Margaret Sanger. "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda." Birth Control Review, October 1921, page 5</ref></blockquote>
<blockquote>We maintain that a woman possessing an adequate knowledge of her reproductive functions is the best judge of the time and conditions under which her child should be brought into the world. We further maintain that it is her right, regardless of all other considerations, to determine whether she shall bear children or not, and how many children she shall bear if she chooses to become a mother... Only upon a free, self-determining motherhood can rest any unshakable structure of racial betterment.<ref>Sanger, "Birth Control and Racial Betterment." The Birth Control Review, 3(2), 11-12</ref></blockquote>
She nevertheless advocated certain instances of coercion, in cases where she considered the parents unfit to decide whether they should bear children:
<blockquote>"The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind."<ref>Sanger, quoted in Charles Valenza: "Was Margaret Sanger a Racist?" Family Planning Perspectives, January-February 1985, page 44.</ref></blockquote>

===Freedom of speech===
Sanger was an avid defender of [[free speech]] who was arrested at least eight times for expressing her views in a time when speaking publicly in favor of birth control was illegal. She stated in interviews that she had been influenced by the agnostic orator [[Robert G. Ingersoll]], who spoke in her hometown when she was 12 years old.<ref name="new yorker">"The Child Who Was Mother to a Woman" from ''The New Yorker'', April 11, 1925, page 11.</ref>

==Legacy==
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Sanger remains a controversial figure. While she is widely credited as a leader of the modern birth control movement, and remains an iconic figure for the American [[reproductive rights]] movements, [[pro-life]] groups condemn Sanger's views, attributing her efforts to promote birth control to a desire to "purify" the human race through eugenics, and even to eliminate minority races by placing birth control clinics in minority neighborhoods.<ref>Marshall.</ref> Despite allegations of racism, Sanger's work with minorities earned the respect of civil rights leaders such as [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]]<ref>Planned Parenthood Federation of America.</ref> In their biographical article about Margaret Sanger, [[Planned Parenthood]] notes:

<blockquote>In 1930, Sanger opened a family planning clinic in Harlem that sought to enlist support for contraceptive use and to bring the benefits of family planning to women who were denied access to their city's health and social services. Staffed by a black physician and black social worker, the clinic was endorsed by ''[[The New York Amsterdam News|The Amsterdam News]]'' (the powerful local newspaper), the [[Abyssinian Baptist Church]], the [[Urban League]], and the black community's elder statesman, [[W.E.B. DuBois]].<ref>Knowles.</ref></blockquote>

Although Sanger's views on abortion changed throughout the course of her life,{{Fact|date=February 2007}} in her early years she was acutely aware of the problem of abortion, typically [[Self-induced abortion|self-induced]] or with the aid of a [[midwife]]. Her opposition to abortion stemmed primarily from a concern for the dangers to the mother, and less so from legal concerns or the welfare of the unborn child.<ref>{{cite book|last=Streitmatter|first=Rodger|title=Voices of Revolution: The Dissident Press in America|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]|date=2001|location=New York|pages=169|id=ISBN 0-231-12249-7}}</ref> She wrote in a 1916 edition of ''Family Limitation,'' "no one can doubt that there are times when an abortion is justifiable," though she framed this in the context of her birth control advocacy, adding that "abortions will become unnecessary when care is taken to prevent conception. (Care is) the only cure for abortions." Sanger consistently regarded birth control and abortion as the responsibility and burden first and foremost of women, and as matters of law, medicine and public policy second.<ref>Gray.</ref>

In her 1938 autobiography, Sanger notes that her 1916 opposition to abortion was based on the taking of life: "To each group we explained what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way—no matter how early it was performed it was taking life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way—it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun."<ref name=abortion>{{cite book |author=Sanger, Margaret |year=1938 |title=Margaret Sanger, An Autobiography |location=New York |publisher=W. W. Norton |pages=p. 217}}</ref>

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==Notes==
{{Reflist|2}}

==References==
*{{cite book
| last = Black
| first = Edwin
| authorlink = Edwin Black
| title = The War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
| origyear = 2003
| origmonth = September
| publisher = Four Walls Eight Windows
| location = New York City, NY
| id = ISBN 1-56858-258-7
}}
*{{cite book
| last = Chesler
| first = Ellen
| title = Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America
| origyear = 1992
| publisher = Simon & Schuster
| location = New York City, NY
| id = ISBN 0-671-60088-5
}}
*{{cite book
| last = Gray
| first = Madeline
| title = Margaret Sanger: A Biography of the Champion of Birth Control
| origdate = 1979
| publisher = Richard Marek Publishers
| location = New York City, NY
| id = ISBN 0-399-90019-5
| pages = 280
}}
*{{cite web
| url=http://www.plannedparenthood.org/files/PPFA/fact-margaret-sanger.pdf
| title=The Truth About Margaret Sanger
| first=Jon
| last=Knowles
| publisher=Katharine Dexter McCormick Library
| year=2004
}}
*{{cite book
| author = Marshall, Robert G.
| coauthors = Donovan, Chuck
| title = Blessed Are the Barren: The Social Policy of Planned Parenthood
| authorlink = Robert G. Marshall
| year = 1991
| month = October
| publisher = Ignatius Press
| location = Fort Collins, CO
| id = ISBN-10: 0898703530; ISBN-13: 978-0898703535
}}
*{{cite book
| author = Sanger, Margaret
| title = What Every Girl Should Know
| url =
| year = 1920
| month =
| publisher = United Sales co.
| location = Springfield, Ill.
}}
*{{cite book
| author = Sanger, Margaret
| title = An Autobiography
| url =
| year = 1938
| month =
| publisher = Cooper Square Press
| location = New York, NY
| id = ISBN 0-8154-1015-8
}}

*{{cite web
| url=http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/who-we-are/the-reverend-martin-luther-king-jr.htm
| title=The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.
| author=Planned Parenthood Federation of America
| year=2004
}}
*{{cite web
| last = Pouzzner
| first = Daniel
| year = February 2005
| url = http://www.mega.nu/ampp/eden/depopulation.html
| title = Returning to Eden: Herding People, Culling the Herd
| work = The Architecture of Modern Political Power
| accessdate = 2006-04-13
}}
*{{cite journal
| first = Margaret
| last = Sanger
| year = 1932
| month = April
| title = '''A Plan For Peace'''
| journal = The Birth Control Review
| pages = 106
| url = http://www.lrainc.com/swtaboo/taboos/ms_apwp.html
}}
*{{cite web
| url=http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/sanger.html
| title=Time's 100 Most Important People of the Century: Margaret Sanger
| work=Time Magazine
| author=Steinem, Gloria
| year=April 13, 1998
}}


==See also==
*[[Anthony Comstock]]
*[[C. C. Little]]
*[[Emma Goldman]]
*[[Ernst Rüdin]]
*[[Havelock Ellis]]
*[[H.G. Wells]]
*[[Houghton family]]
*[[Lothrop Stoddard]]
*[[Mary Dennett|Mary Ware Dennett]]

==Further reading==
===Works by Margaret Sanger===
*''[http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=1689 The Pivot of Civilization]''
*''[http://pds.harvard.edu:8080/pdx/servlet/pds?id=2575249&n=2&s=4&res=3 Woman and the New Race c.1920]''[http://books.google.com/books?id=AywKAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22margaret+sanger%22&lr=#PPP13,M1] - [[Google books]]
*''[http://digital.lib.msu.edu/collections/index.cfm?TitleID=129 What Every Girl Should Know (1920 ed.)]'' (GIF facsimile available)
*''[http://digital.lib.msu.edu/collections/index.cfm?TitleID=130 What Every Girl Should Know (1922 ed.)]'' (GIF and PDF facsimiles available)
*[http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/bl_sanger_1924.htm "The Case for Birth Control"] (first published in the ''Woman Citizen'', [[February 23]], [[1924]])
*''My Fight for Birth Control'' (New York: [[Farrar & Rinehart]], 1931)
*[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/filmmore/ps_letters.html Correspondence] between Sanger and [[Katharine McCormick]]
*{{gutenberg author|id=Margaret_Sanger|name=Margaret Sanger}}
*[http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss43_main.html The Margaret Sanger Papers at Smith College]''

==Mike Wallace video interview==

[[Mike Wallace (journalist)|Mike Wallace]] interviews Margaret Sanger about over-population, the Catholic Church, morality, and, most importantly, why she became an advocate for birth control, Sept. 21, 1957. Hosted at the [[Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center|Harry Ransom Center]].
[http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/sanger_margaret_t.html]

===Works by other authors===
*[http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/sanger.html Profile on Time.com]
*[http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_margaret_sanger.htm Profile in Women's History section of About.com]
*[http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/ The Margaret Sanger Papers Project]

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