birth control

The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Ghost of Margaret Sanger - Dissent
Magazine

Melinda Cooper

36-46 minutes
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Sanger was indeed an ambivalent figure. A lifelong campaigner for
women's rights, she gradually abandoned her anarchist and socialist
convictions in favor of a distinctly feminist version of eugenics.

Frustrated with the lack of interest in women's reproductive autonomy
among feminists and labor activists, Sanger turned to the science of
eugenics at the same time that she launched herself into a campaign to
liberalize birth control laws and provide free clinics to
working-class women.

As historians Mary Ziegler and Linda Gordon have argued, Sanger was
outraged that middle- and upper-class women had ready access to birth
control while working-class women, who bore the brunt of Comstock
anti-obscenity laws, were condemned to continuous unwanted pregnancies
and early deaths.

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-anti-abortion-movement-and-the-ghost-of-margaret-sanger/