Margaret Higgins Sanger (1879)

Sanger married and had three children before becoming active in the women’s labor movement and the Socialist Party. Convinced that control over childbearing was the key to female emancipation, she published a pamphlet in 1914 in which she called for legalization of contraception and coined the term “birth control.” Founder of the organization that became Planned Parenthood, Sanger remains controversial for her views on contraception as well as race. Sanger was the sixth of how many children? Discuss

Source: The Free Dictionary

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