Margaret Sanger

Sandra Fluke Continues Battle that Margaret Sanger Began

Nicole Glass | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Contraception, America?S Affordable Health Choices Act, Rush Limbaugh, Margaret Sanger, Sandra Fluke, Politics News

Fluke is using her media spotlight to draw attention to a number of issues that women in America are facing today -- continuing a century-long struggle that Margaret Sanger began in the 1910's.

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Rush Limbaugh And The Legacy Of Margaret Sanger

Marilyn Sewell | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Contraception, Susan G. Komen, Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, Rush Limbaugh, Gender and Religion, Religion and Sexuality, Abortion, Religion News

Once again, almost 100 years later, women seeking information about contraception are called "obscene," and poor women are threatened with the loss of protection from unwanted pregnancies.

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Back to the Future

Jennifer Seymour Whitaker | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Social Purity, Contraception, Women's Suffrage, Birth Control, Female Sexuality, Margaret Sanger, Comstock, Anti-Contraception, Culture News

What's it all about? From 1914 until the eve of the Second World War, Margaret Sanger and her allies fought and won the battle to make contraception widely available in the United States. Didn't they?

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Dr. King Supported Margaret Sanger & Planned Parenthood, Why Won't You?

Clutch Magazine | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Margaret Sanger Racism, Martin Luther King Jr., Margaret Sanger Eugenics, Margaret Sanger, Mlk, Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood Eugenics, Black Voices News

Michael King, Jr., commonly known to the world as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. omitted several truths in his lifetime, from plagiarizing his doctoral d...

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National Women's History Museum Placates Conservatives To Get Bill Passed In Congress

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 10.08.2011

Read More: Abortion, Women, Women's History Month, Womens History, Historical Revisionism, Bella Abzug, Gloria Steinem, Smithsonian, Motherhood, Carolyn Maloney, Betty Friedan, Phyllis Schlafly, Conservatives, Margaret Sanger, Meryl Streep, Roe v. Wade, National Women's History Museum, Ralph Appelbaum, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Nearly a year after two alpha males on Capitol Hill slew a bill to allow a National Women's History Museum here, the head of the nascent...

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Women's History Month: Female Firsts

Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gender Rights, Muriel Siebert, Equal Pay, Equal Rights, Women's Labor Union, Margaret Sanger, Gender Integration, Women's History, Politics News

I started keeping a running list of some notable years when certain gender barriers were broken, and when I looked back I found that the list itself provided a fascinating snapshot of our country.

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The 50 Most Influential Progressives of the 20th Century

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John L. Lewis, Louis Brandeis, Eleanor Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair, John Dewey, The Nation, W.E.B. Dubois, Frances Perkins, Roger Baldwin, Margaret Sanger, 50 Most Influential Progressives, Lincoln Steffens, Eugene Debs, Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Norman Thomas, Florence Kelley, Earl Warren, I.F. Stone, Ella Baker, Walter Reuther, Woody Guthrie, Jackie Robinson, Harry Hay, Thurgood Marshall, A.J. Musge, Rachel Carson, Sidney Hillman, Henry Wallace, A. Philip Randolph, Saul Alinsky, Paul Robeson, Politics News

We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals and reformers who challenged the status quo of their day. Unfortunately, most Americans know little of this progressive history.

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America's Favorite Birth Control Method Turns 50

AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 11.17.2011

CHICAGO — A world without "the pill" is unimaginable to many young women who now use it to treat acne, skip periods, improve mood and, of course...

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Are Black Children An "Endangered Species"?

Reproductive Justice | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Abortion, Teenage Pregnancy, Georgia Right to Life, Reproductive Rights, Loretta-Ross, Black Abortion, Reproductive Health, Georgia, Atlanta, Pro-Life, Planned Parenthood, Right to Life, Black Genocide, Catherine Davis, Margaret Sanger, Population Control, Prenatal Nondiscrimination, Health Care Reform, Sister-Song, The Radiance Foundation, Anti-Choice, Health Care, Pro-Choice, Eugenics, Black-Children-Endangered-Species, Reproductive Justice, Video, Politics News

The black community is the frequent testing ground for bad legislation and restrictive medical policies. But this time, according to sponsors and anti-abortionists, its purpose is to stop discrimination -- before birth.

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Kennedy, the Pill and Conservatives for Contraception

John R. Bohrer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Birth Control Pill, Catholic Church, Joan Kennedy, Margaret Sanger, West Virginia, Ethel Kennedy, Birth Control, 1960, Politics News

50 years ago, when West Virginians handed Kennedy a victory, it was only after the Democrat promised again and again not to restrict their access to birth control. That's right: the conservatives demanded their right to choose.

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International Women's Day: We've Come a Long Way, Baby!

Dr. Sasha Galbraith | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Lo Hon-Cho, Kathryn Bigelow, Women's Status, Violet Charlesworth, Women's History Month, Women's Suffrage, Women in Parliament, Margaret Sanger, Karla Faye Tucker, Women's History, Working Women, Queen Elizabeth, International Women's Day, Women and Crime, Women's Day, Healthy Living News

On the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, we celebrate the first ever female best director at the Oscars. Against all odds (and her ex-hu...

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What Indy Media Trailblazers Can Teach Us

Jeff Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Seldes, Margaret Sanger, I.F. Stone, William Lloyd Garrison, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida B. Wells, Susan B. Anthony, Independent Media, Victoria Woodhull, Media News

Will independent media outlets that contributed so mightily to the stunning election result speak truth to power and expose corruption and injustice over the long haul -- no matter who's in charge?

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Bush Marches Ahead into the Past

Ellen Feldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Margaret Sanger, Bush Administration, Birth Control, Congress, Health and Human Services, Planned Parenthood, Bush, George Bush, George Bush Abortion, Contraception, Bush Birth Control, Politics News

Our current society is saturated with sex. It sells every product under the sun. But the Bush administration, ever backward looking, still cannot distinguish between contraception and abortion.

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The Last Bastion of Acceptable Prejudice or Hey, Can't You Take a Joke?

Ellen Feldman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Media Coverage, Racism, Iraq, Hillary Clinton, Margaret Sanger, Barack Obama, Sexism, Media News

Now that Hillary has finally conceded, the argument about sexism in news coverage begins, and the good news is that this time it isn't too late to do something about it.

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