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A biographical profile of Margaret Sanger relates her beginnings as one of 11 children in an Irish immigrant family & her life-long fight for women's reproductive freedom. Margaret's mother died at an early age but her father's concern for public welfare influenced her thinking. She became a nurse, married William Sanger, & had three children. Sanger was deeply touched by the suffering of poor women with large families & began writing articles on women's health. However, passage of the Comstock Act in 1873 prohibited mail distribution of any materials on sex/birth control. Incensed by needless deaths from illegal abortions, Sanger traveled to France to gain the knowledge needed to teach women safe ways to prevent excess pregnancies. Implementation of her plan in the US resulted in a grand jury indictment for violating Comstock statutes. Subsequent events described include establishment of America's first birth control clinic, its closure by police, Sanger's arrest/conviction/imprisonment, organization of the first National Birth Control Conference, opening of the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau, & her successful fight to overturn the Comstock laws. J. Lindroth

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