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reformer and crusader for birth control. In 1914 she founded the National
Birth Control League. She founded and presided over the American Birth Control
League 1921-28, the organization that later became the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, and the International Planned Parenthood Federation
1952. Sanger was born in Corning, New York; she received nursing degrees from White Plains Hospital and the Manhattan Eye and Ear Clinic. As a nurse, she saw the deaths and deformity caused by self-induced abortions and became committed to providing health and birth-control education to the poor. In 1917 she was briefly sent to prison for opening a public birth-control clinic in Brooklyn 1916. Her Autobiography appeared 1938. |