"...we explained simply what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way β no matter how early it was performed it was taking a life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way β it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun."
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Margaret Sanger
Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 β September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, feminist, and eugenicist who opened the first birth control clinic in the United States and established organizations that evolved into the .
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