Margaret Sanger

By miriamhj12
  • Comstock Law passed

    Comstock Law passed

    "parent" act
  • Margaret Sanger born

    Margaret Sanger born

  • Married William Sanger

    Married William Sanger

  • Wrote "What Every Girl Should Know"

    Wrote "What Every Girl Should Know"

  • Separated from William

  • Published The Woman Rebel

    Published The Woman Rebel

  • Indicted for violating postal obscenity laws

  • World War I Begins

  • Published "Family Limitation"

    Pamphlet describing the different methods of contraception
  • Visited the Dutch birth control clinic

    Visited the Dutch birth control clinic

    First introduced to diaphragm

  • William Sanger jailed

  • Opened the nation's first birth control clinic in Brooklyn

    Opened the nation's first birth control clinic in Brooklyn

  • Published Birth Control Review

    Published Birth Control Review

  • World War I Ends

  • Published Woman and the New Race

    This book advocated contraception as the only means to prevent overpopulation.

  • Opened American Birth Control League

    She became associated with the reactionary wing of the eugenics movement.

  • Married Noah Slee

    He was the main funder of the birth control movement.
  • Opened Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau

    Opened Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau

    Doctor-run clinic

  • Formed National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control

    She lobbied to grant physicians the right to legally disseminate contraceptives.

  • Cofounded the Birth Control International Information Centre

    Cofounded with British feminist Edith How-Martyn

  • Physicians exempt from Comstock Law's ban

    Ban on importation of birth control materials

  • Merging of organizations into Birth Control Federation of America

    This organization was renamed Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

  • World War II Begins

  • World War II Ends

  • Founded International Planned Parenthood Federation

    Was president until 1959

  • Development of the birth control pill

  • Griswold v Connecticut

    This Supreme Court decision made birth control legal for married couples!

  • Margaret Sanger Died