Margaret Sanger
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This is Margaret Higgins Sanger's 1922 work, "The Pivot of Civilization".
Contents include:
"A New Truth Emerges",
"Conscripted Motherhood",
"'Children Troop Down From Heaven....'",
"The Fertility of the Feeble-Minded",
"The Cruelty of Charity",
"Neglected Factors of the World Problem",
"Is Revolution the Remedy?",
"Dangers of Cradle Competition",
"A Moral Necessity",
"Science the Ally",
"Education and Expression", et cetera.
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A pioneer in the battle to establish birth control as a basic human right and a founder of the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Sanger - a nurse who witnessed first-hand the devastating effects of unwanted pregnancy - triumphed over arrest, indictment, and exile. Her autobiography is a classic of women's studies.
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English
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Margaret Higgins Sanger, September 14, 1879 - September 6, 1966, was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. The following is a recorded tv interview.