My fight for birth control

by Margaret Sanger

Genres: Nonfiction

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1931

About the author

Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee was an American birth control activist and the founder of the American Birth Control League (which eventually became Planned Parenthood). Although she initially met with opposition, Sanger gradually won some support for getting women access to contraception. In her drive to promote contraception and negative eugenics, Sanger remains a controversial figure.

Reviews

[Becky · Rating 4 out of 5]

The fight for birth control was such a magnificently important one, it was so wrapped up in the feminist movement and race rights, but it has been tragically forgotten. America needs reeducated on this subject, only by knowing our history can we make informed decisions about the future. You cannot know where you are going if you do not know where you have been.
This is a primary source. Margaret Sanger was one of the most brilliant heroines in the fight for birth control. She worked as a nurse in low income neighborhoods for years, and after seeing women dying from the distress of large families, of hard pregnancies, and the lack of solution she began her crusade. The numerous lost children of such slums were her inspiration. She was jailed for importing birth control, missing the death of her daughter while she was in exile, and did so much for women that she should never be forgot. This is one of the books that she wrote as an argument for the legalization of the pill. It will probably surprise most people to see how tied up in the “creation of a better species” that it is. Then again, I suppose it will surprise most people that it was a fight at all.

Women, you need to read this book. You need to understand what others went through so that we could have the privilege of family planning hat we do today.