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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

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