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 1912 shocked Margaret Sanger, a nurse who had ...
In Stephanie Gorton’s timely and well-researched new book, “The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America” (Ecco), you ...
The rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett profoundly shaped reproductive rights in America. While Sanger went on to found Planned Parenthood, Dennett’s name has largely faded ...
Recently, Emily Bazelon talked with Stephanie Gorton about how two women, Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett revolutionized how the country thinks about birth control. This partial transcript ...