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 ...

Margaret Sanger’s advocacy work was not without its controversies. One of the most debated aspects of her legacy is her support for eugenics, a stance that she shared with many intellectuals and ...

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 ...

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 ...

dynamic speeches of Margaret Sanger and Susan B. Anthony, and more," a release from the Freedom Trail Foundation said. Through the tours, visitors can see where these women walked, "while visiting ...

Au contraire, Ryan Murphy. Stephanie Gorton documents them in “The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America.” ...

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 ...

Regarding Erika Bachiochi’s “John Paul II, the Feminist Pope” (Houses of Worship, March 14): When one thinks of a feminist, such names as Margaret Sanger, Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem ...