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Family planning by contraception was the cause. Margaret Sanger was its champion. Half a century ago, when she raised the banners of her lonely crusade, she was lacerated from the pulpits as a "lascivious monster" bent on "murdering" unborn children. Birth control, a phrase she herself invented, was unmentionable, immoral and illegal. It was a federal crime merely to send information about it through the mails. She was arrested eight times. Her zeal led to the breakup of her first marriage. Yet when she died last week of arteriosclerosis in Tucson at the age of 82, her vision had been...
What makes her success even more remarkable is that Margaret Sanger was no tough-talking, mannish feminist. Even when she wore severely tailored suits to appear more formidable, she could not conceal her obvious femininity. She was a radiant, vivacious redhead, scarcely 5 ft. tall, who left scores of suitors in her wake...
...Sleep on the Roof." Margaret Sanger grew up in Corning, N.Y., the sixth of eleven children. Her mother died of tuberculosis at 48. In New York at 17, Margaret married Architect William Sanger and soon joined the Socialist Party. She toiled as a nurse in the tenements of the Lower East Side...
...sweltering day in July 1912, Nurse Sanger threaded her way through pushcarts to a cramped flat in a Grand Street tenement. Sadie Sachs, 28, wife of a truck driver and mother of three, was near death as the result of a self-induced abortion. She pleaded with Nurse Sanger and the doctor: "Another baby will finish me. What can I do to prevent it?" The doctor's gruff reply: "Tell Jake to sleep on the roof." Three months later, Sadie Sachs was dead-of another self-induced abortion. Margaret Sanger had a cause...
...Margaret Sanger opened the nation's first birth control clinic in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. On the first day, 150 pram-pushing women from the neighborhood lined up to pay the 10? registration fee. Nine days later, the clinic was raided by policemen and-a particularly galling circumstance to her-policewomen...