The document discusses the work of Margaret Sanger and birth control. It begins by providing background on Sanger, noting that she was a nurse who opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. in 1916 and founded the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood. Sanger worked to make contraception legal and available to women. She believed that by controlling fertility, women could better their lives. However, her work was controversial at the time as birth control was seen as immoral.
The document then explains how Sanger campaigned for legalizing contraception by physicians and the right of women to determine their own fertility. She