Why is margaret sanger courageous? ?
She did what was necessary; with passion and conviction, however controversial ‘those’ practices were in her era. She sacrificed her career, her reputation, and her very life, to help women in need. She stood firm through public scrutiny and overwhelming adversity! Margaret Sanger was an incredibly brave and courageous woman. “Margaret Sanger was educated as and worked as a nurse. In her work with poor women on the Lower East Side of New York, she was aware of the effects of unplanned and unwelcome pregnancies. Her mother’s health had suffered as she bore eleven children. She came to believe in the importance to women’s lives and women’s health of the availability of birth control, a term which she’s credited with inventing. In 1912, Sanger gave up nursing work to dedicate herself to the distribution of birth control information. However, the Comstock Act of 1873 was used to forbid distribution of birth control devices and information. She wrote articles on health for the Socialist Par
