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FILE - In this March 1, 1934 file photo, Margaret Sanger, who founded the American Birth Control League in 1921, speaks before a Senate committee to advocate for federal birth-control legislation ...

The clash between birth control activists Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett is documented in Stephanie Gorton's "The Icon ...

Much of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation controversy is believed to stem from historical perceptions of population ...

Following president-elect Donald Trump’s election in November, Americans raised concerns over future reproductive health ...

Recently, I picked up a book to distract myself from my phone, which was blowing up with social media alerts, election ...

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 ...

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 ...