Margaret Sanger

science · 14 September 1879 · 145 years ago

birth Born 14 Sep 1879; died 6 Sep 1966 at age 86.

(née Maragret Louisa Higgins) American birth-control champion who founded the first U.S. birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, New York (1916), where she had witnessed firsthand the interaction of poverty, uncontrolled fertility, and deaths from botched abortions, together with high rates of infant and maternal mortality. She became an international leader, and is credited with originating the term "birth control."

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