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Margaret Sanger (/ ˈ s æ ŋ ər /; née Higgins; September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse.She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, founded Planned Parenthood, and collaborated in the development of the first birth control pill.
William Sanger (November 12, 1873 – July 23, 1961) was a German-born and American-educated architect and artist. He was the first husband of Margaret Sanger . Early life and education
Katharine Dexter McCormick (August 27, 1875 – December 28, 1967) was a U.S. suffragist, philanthropist and, after her husband's death, heir to a substantial part of the McCormick family fortune. She funded most of the research necessary to develop the first birth control pill .
Ninety-nine years ago today, on October 16, 1916, Margaret Sanger opened the first family planning clinic in the United States. Sanger is credited with sparking the birth control movement, and ...
Her husband, architect William Sanger, was similarly charged earlier that year under a New York law against disseminating contraceptive information. [71] In 1932, Margaret Sanger arranged for a shipment of diaphragms to be mailed from Japan to a sympathetic physician in New York City. When U.S. customs confiscated the package as unlawful ...
While Sanger was in Europe, her husband continued her work, which led to his arrest after he distributed a copy of a birth control pamphlet to an undercover postal worker. [37] The arrest and his 30-day jail sentence prompted several mainstream publications, including Harper's Weekly and the New-York Tribune , to publish articles about the ...
Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, Princess Margaret's husband, family caught the attention of Detroit police in 1974.
“The most challenging thing for me this season was that I had some emotional issues with my husband in public that I normally don’t do,” Margaret, 53, told Us Weekly on the Friday, March 12 ...