A Nation with Birth Control

Throughout the writer’s younger years, her mother gave birth to eleven children and lost seven more before she died at forty-nine. These instances did not give the writer a good outlook on large families. In fact, in her book Women and the New Race, she writes, “The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” This shows that she did not approve of large families and later she found a way to prevent them. Margaret Sanger spent her whole life trying to find a cure for unwanted children. Her whole purpose in life was to promote birth control. Sanger founded Planned Parenthood on October 16, 1916 and gave women the option to be in control of their bodies. Margaret Sanger’s speech, “The Morality of Birth Control” was given at the Park Theater in New York on November 18, 1921 and pleaded with women to use birth …show more content…
She goes into the topic of Birth Control and why we need it in our lives. The author states, “We desire to stop at its source the disease, poverty and feeble-mindedness and insanity which exist today, for these lower the standards of civilization and make for race deterioration.” From this statement you can tell Sanger is very passionate about the topic of Birth Control. Sanger is worried about people being educated about Birth Control and talks immensely about the difference between the knowledge of birth control in the social classes. Not only was it like this in America, but also in Japan. “Only middle- and upper-class women that had access to private doctors could secretly learn some relatively effective and safe methods of contraception.” This excerpt from Birth Control and Socialism: The frustration of Margaret Sanger and Ishimoto Shizue’s Mission shows that other countries have the same problems as the United States and that Sanger’s passion towards birth control extends beyond