DYK while #MargaretSanger was on the lam in England, #AnthonyComstock arrested her estranged husband, William (d.1961). An undercover agent posed as a friend of his wife, went to his home, & requested a copy of “Family Limitation”. The court found Sanger guilty.

DYK eugenicists also took over projects that #MargaretSanger started? In the early 1930s, she established #BirthControl clinics in the rural South to serve the poor & do research to find methods that would be cheaper & easier than the diaphragm. It was her #NegroProject.

DYK #MargaretSanger argued against involuntary #eugenics & #racism in many of her dozen or so books? In 1921, she published “The Pivot of Civilization”:
“We should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of “fit” & “unfit.” Who is to doubt this question?

In some writings, she exempted the mentally incompetent, but #MargaretSanger refused ever to give ground on her conviction: Every woman had a right to make her own choices — especially about having children. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WomanRights

DYK #MargaretSanger held #eugenic ideals, but deeply believed that VOLUNTARY #BirthControl was the first step toward #EqualRights for all women: It would keep the population from growing too fast & help “breed” a healthier world & human race.
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#MarieStopes' dedication to birth control was heroic, but was a bit of a professional snob. Proud of being a doctor, she refused to grant #MargaretSanger a interview because Sanger was only a nurse.
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DYK #MargaretSanger tried to reason with the leaders of the #eugenics movement & in 1919, she wrote about her disappointment w/their doctrine in an article for “The Birth Control Review”:

DYK the most common #BirthControl in the 1950s was sterilization? #MargaretSanger & #KatharineDexterMcCormick (in their 70s) developed the pill to offer women reversible contraception, preserve fertility, & prevent the need for #abortion. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #WmnHist

DYK #MagnusHirschfeld's burned library on human sexuality included books & journals by #MargaretSanger? Nazis, like today's #TrumpKKKristians, opposed #abortion, #bestiality, #BirthControl #QueerSex, & #SoloSex, all written about in his collection. Blog1&7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK #MargaretSanger & her friend Katherine Dexter McCormick provided the funding & directives for #GregoryPincus's development of the first effective contraceptive pill? Both were in their 70s when they accomplished this heroic feat!
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DYK the women who directed & funded the research by the men who developed Enovid, the first birth control pill, were #MargaretSanger & Katherine Dexter McCormick? And they both were in their 70s!
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#MargaretSanger's first clinic was an illegal act of non-violent civil disobedience that won the admiration of #MahatmaGandhi & #MLK. Nevertheless, the church smeared her as a racist, a falsehood that has tainted her legacy.
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DYK #HavelockEllis, who normalized sexuality, mentored #MargaretSanger while on the lam for illegally opening 1st U.S. birth control clinic? She went on to make it legal for women worldwide & brought about the first woman-controlled method—the pill.
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DYK the overwhelming force in developing the pill was #MargaretSanger, who, w/Katherine Dexter McCormick, put up the $$$ & designed the research at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology to show how newly available hormones could be used. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

"No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body."

👩🏽‍⚕️ #MargaretSanger, American nurse, birth control activist, and feminist, was #BOTD 14 September 1879.

DYK #MahatmaGandhi admired #MargaretSanger for advancing his model of nonviolent civil disobedience, satyagraha, in her pursuit of women's self-determination?
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DYK #NegroProject had nothing to do w/#MargaretSanger? Sanger raised the funding, but southern racists threw her out & took it over. She never promoted abortion, illegal & dangerous her whole life. No truth in #Trump’s antichoice movement! Blog1 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex

#WEBDuBois helped early feminist thinking by supporting #MargaretSanger's race-blind campaign to legalize #BirthControl & allow women to control their own bodies. Now, many falsely accuse her of #racism! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
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DYK #MargaretSanger inspired #MahatmaGandhi & #MLK w/her models for non-violent civil disobedience? At the age of 70, brought about the development of the birth control pill. She was truly the hero of the 20th century, ending thousands of years of oppression for women.
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