Margaret Sanger, a pioneering advocate for women’s reproductive rights, ... Her trial and initial appeal, which she lost, ...

The “icon” of Gorton’s title is Margaret Sanger, the tarnished heroine of the birth control battle, whose failings and blind spots have become notorious.The lesser known “idealist” is ...

These birth control activists fought for the cause (and against each other) A new book, “The Icon and the Idealist” by Stephanie Gorton, explores the work of Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett.

In October of 1918, Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic at 46 Amboy Street in Brooklyn, New York. Back then, as now in some ways, reproductive rights and abortion were hotly ...