Nov. 16, 2017
Authorities shut down Margaret Sanger’s birth control clinic permanently. As a midwife, Margaret Sanger witnessed too much mutilation and death amongst poor New York women trying to administer their own abortions. So in 1913, she became an activist set on promoting birth control for women. Birth control, she felt, would keep many from sinking into poverty, and keep them out of harm’s way. After several arrests and much media attention, Sanger and others opened a birth control clinic in New York. Church and state opposition to the facility led to all the members of the clinic being arrested a number of times. Yet after each set of arrests, they just bravely re-opened the clinic. That ended on November 16, 1916, when police forced the clinic’s landlord to evict Sanger and the clinic for good. Undiscouraged, Sanger continued her decades-long fight for birth control rights, eventually founding the American Birth Control League and the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau, which later became Planned Parenthood. In 1965, one year before Sanger died, the American Supreme Court ruled that the constitution protected one’s right to use birth control.
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