Margaret Sanger

HHS Cowardice and USCCB Overreach

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by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

December 12, 2011 - 8:57am (Print)

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Kathleen Sebelius caves to anti-choicers on emergency contraception, and the USCCB looks to further restrict women's access to contraception. Jean Baker describes the long and wild career of Margaret Sanger.

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A Woman with a Plan: The Real Story of Margaret Sanger

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by Ellen Chesler, The Roosevelt Institute

November 3, 2011 - 3:20pm (Print)

Her opponents have smeared her as a racist and classist, but Sanger devoted her life to fighting for equal access to reproductive choice.

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Who Was Margaret Sanger?

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by Robin Marty, RH Reality Check

November 3, 2011 - 12:45pm (Print)

As every anti-choice advocate and candidate invokes the name of the founder of Planned Parenthood, Ms. Magazine takes a deeper look into her life and work.

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My How Things Change! President Bush Praises Family Planning...

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by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check

September 26, 2011 - 11:39am (Print)

President Bush praises family planning?  On World Contraception Day? Don't fall off your chair. Nearly 40 years ago, ensuring universal access to family planning services was a cause that card-carrying Republicans were actually proud to embrace. So we're talkin' President George Bush, Senior, before he was President.

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(AUDIO) Convictions to Action: Lessons from Margaret Sanger

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by Gloria Feldt, www.GloriaFeldt.com

February 17, 2010 - 8:00am (Print)

Vision, power, timing and movement are among eight lessons of leadership from Margaret Sanger's life and work.

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Women of Color and the Anti-Choice Focus on Eugenics

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by Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

February 12, 2010 - 7:00am (Print)

Women of color are not children unable to make decisions and our children are not "on the brink of extinction" through an organized genocidal plot.

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Clinton's Plan for Women, and the People Who Hope it Fails

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by Kathleen Reeves, RH Reality Check

August 19, 2009 - 12:27pm (Print)

Concern for women’s rights among many conservatives extends only as far as it can be used against our enemies.

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On Her Birthday, Remembering Margaret Sanger

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by Gloria Feldt, www.GloriaFeldt.com

September 14, 2007 - 7:14am (Print)

Margaret Sanger's vivid, impassioned words resonate even today.

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