Primary Source Review: The Rights to One’s Body, By Margaret Sanger Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) was a nurse in New York city. Also Sanger was a social reformer not only for women but for what we would call planned parenthood. She was a key role in the idea of birth control and was the first person to go against the grain and try to change the way women were looked at. She believed that all women were not truly free because they did not know much about their bodies and childbirth. Her motivation to write out pamphlets and birth all came from the times she was a nurse. She noticed a relationship between people on the poverty line and uncontrolled fertility. Sanger witnessed high maternal mortality rates and people trying to do an abortion themselves because they could not afford a doctor. This all led her to develope birth control as an oral contraceptive and also in 1916 started the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn. She started the American Birth Control League in 1921. She was so passionate about this topic she quit her nursing career in 1912 and put all her time towards making people aware of birth control and getting that option out there to people…show more content… Sanger was one out of eleven children. Sanger wrote magazines and pamphlets which did not last too long because people saw her as a public nuisance and would try and charge her as a nuisance. She sent those flyers to people's houses to educate them on the ideas of birth control and how women can be in control of their bodies. She ended up serving 30 days in jail because people finally charged her with being a public nuisance. In the 1920’s the women were getting a little more wild and birth control was still a controversial topic. Margaret did not care what happened to her so she became a public icon you could say which helped her gain public opinion. Which throughout all of these events inspired her to write The Rights to One’s
