Margret Sanger: Health Clinics and Women's Contraceptives (oct 1, 1916 – oct 1, 1921)
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Margaret Sanger, a women’s rights activist, was the first woman to open the first American birth-control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn. She also worked alongside WEB DuBois to open up free health clinics in poor neighborhoods of New York such as Harlem. Because of the “Comstock Laws” which banned contraceptives and the passing of informatin about them, Sanger’s clinic was shut down multiple times. Until 1921, when Sanger formed the American Birth Control League, which was the organization which would later start Planned Parenthood.
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