The Nurse Who Threw Away Her Bag — The Fierce Life of Margaret Sanger

Born into a crowded Corning, New York home in 1879, Margaret Sanger watched her own mother spent by eighteen pregnancies before dying at fifty. That grief became a lifelong refusal. As a nurse in the immigrant tenements of the Lower East Side, she saw women beg for knowledge the law forbade her to give — and one summer, after a woman named Sadie Sachs died, she made a vow that would consume the rest of her life. What followed was a fifty-year fight of blank newspaper columns, secret pamphlets, a Brooklyn clinic that lasted nine days, a workhouse cell, an ocean crossing under a false name, and the loss she could never speak of. She built a movement, coined a phrase the whole century would use, and reached, in her seventies, for one last impossible thing. This is the story of how one stubborn, grieving, deeply complicated woman pressed against an immovable wall until it moved. Watch to the end to understand the cost — and what she truly left behind. Margaret Sanger, "An Autobiography", W. W. Norton & Company, 1938 Ellen Chesler, "Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America", Simon & Schuster, 1992 The Margaret Sanger Papers Project, New York University, https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/ Jean H. Baker, "Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion", Hill and Wang, 2011 PBS American Experience, "The Pill", https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe... #MargaretSanger #History #BirthControl #WomensHistory #Documentary #TrueStory #Biography #PlannedParenthood #1900s #SocialReform