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In 5 pages, the writer discusses Margaret Sanger. She had an important role in establishing "Planned Parenthood", which has had an impact on today's society. She felt that women, particularly poor, lower class women, should be able to use birth control methods and be taught about sexual reproduction and contraception in general. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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She felt that women, particularly poor, lower class women, should be able to use birth control methods and be taught about sexual reproduction and contraception in general.
Regardless of the controversies that surrounded Margaret Sanger, she is indeed a heroine. Her fight to champion the cause of birth control is in
juxtaposition with her ideal that women should not have to suffer and die, when they could use contraceptives instead. Powderly (1995) posits
that although the technology of long-term contraception is somewhat new, the ethical and policy dilemmas surrounding the use of them are not. She said, "In the late nineteenth
century, Victorian opinion tolerated promiscuity among men and promoted sexual self-control among women. Prostitutes were a common and accepted solution to this dichotomy. Despite the view that female
sexuality was to serve the end of reproduction rather than the womans pleasure, contraception was widely practiced among all social classes. The methods employed varied by class, however, due
to cost and availability. The upper classes were more likely to use relatively expensive methods of contraception such as condoms, spermicides, and douches. They might also have had
access to diaphragms and cervical caps, which were smuggled in from Europe at a high cost. Withdrawal and rhythm were often the only methods available to the poor.
In an era when menstrual cycles were poorly understood, pregnancies often resulted. Abortion, often self-induced and always dangerous, was resorted to frequently. It is estimated that by the
1850s one out of every five to six pregnancies in America ended with an abortion. Mortality from septic abortions was extremely high. In 1888, death from abortion was
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