Sanger began to contribute tremendously in the society. She had a great influence on the women in her day and age. She became an advocate for women’s health and autonomy. She focused mainly on the birth control aspect. Sanger was dedicated when it came down to her literary works. She used this technique to recruit educated women, and get them to join her fight against the stigmas attached to abortions and contraceptives. Through publications of various books she showed these women that, although society painted birth control as an obscenity and the church painted it as an abomination that that does not mean that it is wrong and selfish.
Sanger started to establish many organizations to widen her audience and provide everyone with access information. She wanted as many women to fight against such laws and prohibitions as possible. She sought after reform of state laws and pushed for birth control clinics (Whitman 720). Sanger the first doctor- staffed clinics in America. It demonstrated the safety and effectiveness of contraceptive information. By opening such an organization she was able to refute claims that diaphragms caused cancer and madness. This Bureau served as a teaching facility for physicians. They were able to receive instruction in contraceptive techniques at a time when it was not in the medical curriculum. It was known to be the model for the nationwide network. It enabled Sanger to establish over 300 clinics which provided reliable contraceptive advice and was responsible for important improvements in the effectiveness of contraceptive practices (Sicherman 626). This Bureau was a true representation of her goal in life it carried out most of her lifelong dreams to see women being allowed to make decisions concerning their own health and regarding childbearing.
After observing the seeing the progress that her establishments had made she decided to change her strategy to focus on eugenics. This is the study of hereditary improvements of the human race by controlled selective breeding. Sanger, being a eugenicist herself believed that “children that are diseased or defected in any type of way should not be born into the world” (Sanger). This includes criminals, various races and any other person that is not ideal in her eyes. She even stated in the article Pivot of Civilization, concerning blacks, immigrants and indigents are “ …human weeds,’ reckless breeders,’ spawning human beings who never should have been born” (Dew).
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Just remember that you need to explain the statements you make. If you say she did something, talk about why that is important and what impact it had. Sometimes you just made blanket statements but didn't link them back to "influence."
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