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Margaret Sanger was born in 1879 in New York as Margaret Higgins and died in 1966 in Tuscon, Arizona. She was a nurse and a feminist and created the birth control movement at the beginning of the 1900 and the term “birth control”. She spent the majority of her life to educate women about birth control and feminism.

Margaret Sanger was raised by her mother and 10 siblings. Her mother suffered a lot by all these undesired birth knowing that she had tuberculosis. She died at 50 because of her disease. Margaret thought that the multiple pregnancies decreased her health. After that her dad took care of the family but they were really poor.

She went to Claverack College and Hudson River Institute in 1896 and study nursing at White Plains Hospital. She got married two times: first to William Sanger, an architect and an artist. She had three children with him but she divorced and later she marries Mr Slee, an industrialist, who died in 1941. His money contributed a lot to the birth control movement.

She educated women about sexuality to let them choose if they wanted a baby and to control their birth. She thought that women and society could not evolve if family could not plan to have a baby or not. She created the American Birth Control League in 1921 and people from all over the country called to ask question about birth control.