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Margaret Sanger
Chesler, Ellen | July 21, 2003 issue

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The article profiles Margaret Sanger, social reformer and an advocate of the birth-control movement in the U.S. Her single-minded pursuit of sexual and reproductive freedom for women started in 1913, when she watched a young patient die tragically from the complications of a then all-too-common illegal abortion. According to Sanger, if women took control of the forces of reproduction, it would lower birthrates, alter the balance of supply and demand for labor, and reduce poverty in the country. She was imprisoned in 1917 for distributing contraceptive pessaries to immigrant women.

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SANGER, Margaret; WOMEN'S rights; PRO-choice activists; REPRODUCTIVE rights; SOCIAL movements; PRO-choice movement; CONTRACEPTIVES; BIRTH control -- Law & legislation; UNITED States
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