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Margaret Sanger was born on September 14th, 1879 in Corning, New York. She was one out of the eleven children that survived from her mothers eighteen pregnancies before her mother passed away from tuberculosis. Her Father was an atheist who worked as a sculptor. He was also an activist for free public education and woman suffrage. She spent her youth helping at home doing chores and looking after her siblings. She didn’t stay home for all her life. She attended Claverack College only for two years because she was asked to come home and look after her sick mother who later died at the age of 31 in 1896. Her first marriage was to architect named William Sanger in 1902. She moved to Saranac, New York for health reasons since she had developed Tuberculosis from her sick mother. Later on, she started getting back into working and started writing for a column in the New York Call newspaper called "What Every Girl Should Know".  Around this time she realized what she wanted to do with her life.  She dedicated herself to the promotion of birth control and how she wanted woman especially those of the poor class to have full control over them selves and wanted them to know when it was right for them to be pregnant, how many kids they should have, have the only say in abortion.  “As an advocate of birth control I wish… to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation....
On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective” (The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda)  Even though she knew that she was taking actions against the Comstock law of 1973 she risked being arrested. She also worked with many other activist such as Emma Goldman, John Reed, & Mable Dodge. The death of Sadie Sach’s led her to think that she really had to get out there and help the woman so they too wouldn’t try to do illegal abortions. She launched The Woman Rebel a newspaper column.