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

Ryan Murphy might want to take a look at Stephanie Gorton's "The Icon and the Idealist," a portrait of birth control ...

Margaret Sanger witnessed unwanted pregnancies -- and desperate abortion attempts -- when she worked as a nurse among New York's poorest women. Though they came from different worlds, the two ...

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 ...

Margaret Sanger's birth control movement and quest for the Pill intersected the rise of the eugenics movement in America. At a time when birth control was still not publicly accepted in American ...

Margaret Sanger was a tiny red-headed radical from the back streets. Her name isn’t very well known but she did more to shape today’s world than most politicians. In the early twentieth ...

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Alexander C. Sanger is the author of *Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Century* published in January 2004 by PublicAffairs. Mr. Sanger, the grandson of Margaret Sanger, who founded the ...

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 ...