During the 1920s, Margaret Sanger broke barriers by fighting for the right for women to choose what they want to do with their own bodies and advocating for access to birth control and family planning.

"Portrait of Margaret Sanger, 1879"

from the Margaret Sanger Papers Project

"[W]oman should have the right over her own body and to say if she shall or if she shall not be a mother, as she sees fit."

 
~ Margaret Sanger (from the Morality of Birth Control, Nov. 18, 1921) 

"Margaret Sanger with Fania Mindell inside Brownsville clinic, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, Oct. 1916"

from Ordinary Philosphy