Friday, November 4, 2011

Margaret Sanger

The Awesome Woman of the day is Margaret Sanger.

With the recent laws in Congress and some states (especially Mississippi's granting 'personhood' to any embryo) I thought Margaret Sanger was relevant.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/peopleevents/p_sanger.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sanger

American Experience | The Pill | People & Events www.pbs.org
Margaret Sanger devoted her life to legalizing birth control and making it universally available for women. Born in 1879, Sanger came of age during the heyday of the Comstock Act, a federal statute that criminalized contraceptives. Margaret Sanger believed that the only way to change the law was to ...