Margert Sanger
1879 1966
Margert Sanger was born in 1879,Sanger came of age during the heyday of the Comstock Act, a federal statute that criminalized contraceptives. In 1910s, Sanger actively challenged federal and state Comstock laws to bring birth control information and contraceptive devices to women. She wanted to find the right contraceptive to relieve women from the unwanted pregnancies.
Margert Sanger has a huge roll. In 1914 she coined the term "birth control" and soon began to provide women with information and contraceptives. Indicted in 1915 for sending diaphragms through the mail and arrested in 1916 for opening the first birth control clinic in the country, Sanger would not be deterred. In 1921 she founded the American Birth Control League, the precursor to the Planned Parenthood Federation, and spent her next three decades campaigning to bring safe and effective birth control into the American mainstream.
Not only did Sanger live to see the realization of her "magic pill," but four years later, at the age of 81, Sanger witnessed the undoing of the Comstock Laws. In the 1965 Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut, the court ruled that the private use of contraceptives was a constitutional right. When Sanger passed away a year later, after more than half a century of fighting for the right of women to control their own fertility, she died knowing she had won the battle.
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