Facts: - Born September 14, 1879 - Died September 6, 1966 - She was an American sex educator, nurse and birth control activist. - Founder of Planned Parenthood and American Birth control league in 1921. - She served as president for the International Planned ParenthoodConfederation. She was arrested for giving information to women about birth control. Her mother had 18 pregnancies with in 22 years. She wanted to prevent black alley abortions. This is what people were saying when Margaret Sanger was arrested for opening up to verities of people with planned parenthood and contraceptive. Fact: - Planned Parenthood started in 1916. - Planned Parenthood is the largest provider of reproductive health services in the United States, which include contraceptives and abortions. - The organization started in Brooklyn New York, where Margaret Sanger opened the country's first birthcontrol clinic. http://www.plannedparenthood.org/m a/ - Planned Parenthood increases its abortion numbers each year, bucking the nearly 20year national trend of a decreasing abortion rate. Planned Parenthood has been around since 1916. Planned Parenthood was a daring subject to talk about because in 1916 people were not open to talking about safe sex, birth control and contraceptive was a natural thing for women. As soon as the first location opened in Brooklyn, New York many other locations followed along with success because it was a good idea to start talking about safe sex and birth control. In 1936 Sanger and other birth control cases first won in court. In 1962, doctor Alan Guttmacher, begins his 12-year tenure as Planned Parenthood president. In 1976 the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down state requirements for parental and spousal consent before women obtain an abortion. From 1956 to 1962, hundreds of women in the United States and Europe who took the drug thalidomide while pregnant gave birth to children with birth defects like missing arms and legs. “Would you rather be uncomfortable for five minutes buying condoms, or be uncomfortable for nine months”. In 1914, she witnessed frequent pregnancies as a nurse and self abortions, she started writing and publishing a monthly newsletter, The Woman Rebel. Margaret was influenced by the conditions of her childhood her mother had 18 children within 22 years, and died at age 50 of tuberculosis and cervical cancer. In New York, Margaret organized the first birth control clinic with all-female doctors, and a clinic in Harlem with an entirely African-American staff to help out. In 1929, Margaret formed the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, which the focused on her hard efforts to make contraception in the United In 1929, she formed the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, which served as the focal point of her lobbying efforts to legalize contraception in the United States. States for all women legal. http://www.plannedparenthood.org/ma / http://www.biography.com/people/mar garet-sanger-9471186 http://www.plannedparenthoodaction.o rg/ http://search.time.com/results.html?N=0 &Nty=1&p=0&cmd=tags&srchCat=Full+A rchive&Ntt=margaret+sanger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bp Ls1qnSD0 THE END !! *