Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett each had a different vision of reproductive freedom. Would reproductive rights be more ...

“Tell Jake (her husband) to sleep on the roof.” The 28-year-old New York housewife died six months later from a second abortion, leaving behind three young children under age five. Sachs’s death in ...

Dennett, a short, bespectacled woman, found her husband mesmerized ... days in the workhouse for helping Margaret in her short-lived birth control clinic. “Sanger was flummoxed,” Gorton ...

Born Margaret Higgins in 1879 in Corning, New York, Sanger was one of 11 children. Her mother’s frequent pregnancies and early death left a lasting impression on young Margaret, highlighting the ...