Sanger outside of her trial on January 30, 1917. | Bain News Service, Library of Congress. In October 1916, Margaret Sanger opened a birth control clinic in Brooklyn with the help of her sister ...

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

The recent crusade against Planned Parenthood, sparked by an infiltrator’s stealth video, would have seemed somewhat familiar to the organization’s founder, Margaret Sanger, who faced criminal ...

46 Amboy Street in Brownsville, Brooklyn, site of Margaret Sanger’s first birth control clinic, as it looks today. (Poncie Rutsch/for WHYY) You see, 46 Amboy is the epicenter of the debate over “a ...

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 ...

Margaret Sanger started the American Birth Control League in 1921; it became part of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1942.

Margaret Talbot reviews “The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America,” by Stephanie Gorton.

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 ...