Margaret Sanger devoted her life to legalizing birth control and making it universally available for women. Born in 1879, Sanger came of age during the heyday of the Comstock Act, a federal ...

Although American scientists had been busy studying hormones in the 1930s and 1940s, Margaret sanger's dream of a pill for birth control improbably came to fruition because of the discovery of a ...

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, a nurse who, in 1914, became a pioneering crusader for women's reproductive rights after she published a booklet on birth control techniques that flew in the face of a law ...