Geburtsdatum | Sonntag, 14. September 1879 |
Geburtsort | Corning, New York, U.S. |
Todesort | Tucson,_Arizona |
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Beschreibung | Margaret Higgins Sanger (geboren als Margaret Louise Higgins; 14. September 1879 - 6. September 1966), auch bekannt als Margaret Sanger Slee, war eine amerikanische Aktivistin für Geburtenkontrolle, Sexualpädagogin, Schriftstellerin und Krankenschwester. Sanger machte den Begriff "Geburtenkontrolle" populär, eröffnete die erste Klinik für Geburtenkontrolle in den Vereinigten Staaten und gründete Organisationen, aus denen sich die Planned Parenthood Federation of America entwickelte. |
The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.
Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts.
The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.
Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.
Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have. Regardless of what man's attitude may be, that problem is hers - and before it can be his, it is hers alone.
When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.
