Margaret Sanger had the qualifications to give this speech because of her work in providing birth control for poor women and families who desperately needed it. She also understood on a personal level the negative caused by a lack of birth control through her mother. Sanger’s mother did what was expected of her in the time period; she was pregnant 18 times with 11 children and seven miscarriages. She died at the early age of 40 that Sanger blamed on her mother’s body having to go through the struggles of pregnancy 18 times (Parenthood). Because of her experience with her mother’s pregnancies and death, Sanger knew at a deeply personal level just how deadly the consequences of lack of birth control could be. Sanger also knew the effects lack