Before access to birth control was legalized in this country in 1936, there was a movement of birth control advocates in ...

Sachs’s death in 1912 shocked Margaret Sanger, a nurse who had attended the young woman for three weeks after her first abortion. Sanger soon gave up nursing and began a lifelong campaign for the ...

That war continues to rage, but without the contributions of pioneers like Margaret Sanger, we’d still be stuck in the trenches. Born in 1879 to Irish parents, she was a complicated woman ...

One year ago this summer, Americans were jolted out of their complacency about abortion by a series of shocking videos, some depicting Planned Parenthood executives casually negotiating the price ...

Margaret Sanger witnessed unwanted pregnancies -- and desperate abortion attempts -- when she worked as a nurse among New York's poorest women. Though they came from different worlds, the two ...

These were lures posing as warnings. Two rival activists, Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett, eventually brought birth control out of the realm of taboo, though, in Sanger’s case, not without ...

Margaret Sanger's birth control movement and quest for the Pill intersected the rise of the eugenics movement in America. At a time when birth control was still not publicly accepted in American ...

Who was the most successful Irish-American woman? In my book, she was a fugitive, a prisoner, vivacious, beloved, despised, and competitive. She ...

Mr. Sanger, the grandson of Margaret Sanger, who founded the birth control movement over eighty years ago, is currently Chair of the International Planned Parenthood Council and has served as a ...