Margaret Sanger, original name Margaret Louisa Higgins, (born September 14, 1879, Corning, New York, U.S. died September 6, 1966, Tucson, Arizona), founder of the birth control movement in the United States and an international leader in the field. She is credited with originating the term birth control. Sanger was the sixth of 11 children. She attended Claverack College and then took nurse’s training in New York at the White Plains Hospital and the Manhattan Eye and Ear Clinic. She was married twice, to William Sanger in 1900 and, after a divorce, to J. Noah H. Slee in 1922. After a brief
Planned Parenthood, in full Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., American organization that, since its founding in 1942, has worked as an advocate for education and personal liberties in the areas of birth control, family planning, and reproductive health care. Clinics operated by Planned Parenthood provide a range of reproductive health care services, including abortion, sex education, prenatal care, infertility services, and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases, as well as vaccinations and cancer screenings for millions of mostly low-income and rural patients. Planned Parenthood traces its beginnings to the birth control movement led by Margaret Sanger and her colleagues, who
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The Population Bomb Orders & Disorders To understand the change in Protestant thought and practice, we need to understand
the Protestant vision of family and fertility, particularly as expressed by Luther
and Calvin, and how it has changed over the last hundred years. Early sixteenth-century Europe was an era very different from ours. The late medieval Church claimed about one of every four adults in celibate orders, serving either as priests, nuns, or monks or in celibate military and trading groups such as the Teutonic Knights. Over the centuries, the religious orders had, through bequests, accumulated vast landed estates and gathered in the wealth that came through this ownership