begun in 1950, when Margaret Sanger, the great warrior for that cause, renewed an old friendship with a formidable dowager named Katharine McCormick. Much of both women’s lives had been about fighting to advance the cause of sex education and birth control and fighting against the Catholic Church, which sought to stop such efforts. For most of her life Sanger had been on the radical fringe, constantly living with harassment and the threat of jail. But after forty years of leading the struggle, her ideas on sexual hygiene and population control had moved so much into the mainstream of social
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