#MargaretSanger’s
DYK #Nazis outlawed #BirthControl & #abortion & targeted teen sex & #GaySex? Having babies was compulsory for German women. #Hitler burned #MargaretSanger’s books calling for voluntary #BirthControl. #TrumpKKKristian-nazis ban books today. Blog1 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
#MargaretSanger's first clinic was an illegal act of non-violent civil disobedience that won the admiration of #MahatmaGandhi & #MLK. Nevertheless, the church smeared her as a racist, a falsehood that has tainted her legacy.
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
September 15, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Calls for #SexEd beginning in the 20thC were nearly all for promoting #SocialPurity & ending #STIs, vice & #TeenPregnancy. Even #MargaretSanger’s 1914 teaching didn’t include #coitus. Most programs still don’t acknowledge the #SexDrive & #SexualPleasure
July 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
DYK #WEBDuBois supported #MargaretSanger's campaign to legalize #BirthControl? He called on her to establish clinics in black neighborhoods & wrote aricles calling for legalizing contraception in her Birth Control Review. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #BLM #WmnHist
May 5, 2026 at 4:21 PM
DYK the flyer promoting #MargaretSanger’s first clinic in 1916 used this line: “#DoNotKill do not take life, but prevent”? She fought for legalizing #BirthControl because abortion was illegal & dangerous her whole life. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #WmnHist
August 11, 2026 at 3:47 PM
DYK poor women of early 20thC may not have had $5.00 for #abortion, but were able to scrape together 25¢ for a copy of #MargaretSanger’s “Family Limitation” to learn how to avoid pregnancy, but banned under #Comstock.
October 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
DYK #MargaretSanger’s belief that careless breeding was dangerous for women & the human race was #eugenic? For her & #WEBDubois, reproductive choice had to be voluntary & belonged to ALL woman. Many other #eugenicists refused to accept #choice. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist
June 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
DYK #MargaretSanger’s arch-enemy, #AnthonyComstock, got Congress’ 1873 Postal Act to ban information about #abortion & #BirthControl? He felt it was obscene. He had horror of all things sexual & kept a journal of his struggles w/the Devil & #SoloSex. Here are 2 entries:
May 16, 2026 at 3:45 PM
DYK the #Nazis burned #MargaretSanger's books in their infamous burning of books at Magnus Hirchfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft? Anti-abortion zealots falsely accuse Sanger of being a Nazi, but they definitely did not burn their own books! Blog1 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
#WEBDuBois helped early feminist thinking by supporting #MargaretSanger's race-blind campaign to legalize #BirthControl & allow women to control their own bodies. Now, many falsely accuse her of #racism! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
SCOTUSisTooCatholic
September 8, 2026 at 3:10 PM
DYK #MargaretSanger’s works were in 1st Nazi bonfire of books? Today's #TrumpKKKristians, our own #Nazis, accuse her of being a fellow traveler w/#AdolphHilter. They have no comprehension of history or choose to ignore it out of sheer hatefulness. Blog1 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
September 1, 2026 at 2:56 PM
DYK “prolife” zealots ignore #MargaretSanger's belief that ALL women's choices are their own? Using #BirthControl is voluntary, but the Vatican condemns it, & #Nazis burned her books. She never promoted abortion, illegal & dangerous all her life. Blog1 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
July 14, 2026 at 3:34 PM
DYK trials for MargaretSanger’s #BirthControl pill began in Puerto Rico in 1956? At that time, 30 of the 48 U.S. states had laws against advertising or selling birth control. Massachusetts & Connecticut had total bans. But Puerto Rico had a network of 67 birth control clinics.
March 24, 2026 at 3:17 PM
DYK before #MargaretSanger’s pill in the early 1950s, the most secure #BirthControl method was blocking a woman’s tubes? But it was not reversible & it was hard to get permission for it. An unnamed doctor at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City described its policies this way:
March 24, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Young women today may not even know #MargaretSanger’s name because those who oppose women’s rights have so successfully smeared her that even the leadership of #PlannedParenthood, which she founded, have bought into the falsehood that she was a racist! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
March 17, 2026 at 4:11 PM
DYK in 1936, Frederick Taussig estimated that there were 1/2 million illegal abortions a yr in USA? #BirthControl clinics did not refer for them, but cared about women who needed one. In 1942, a staff person at #MargaretSanger’s clinic referred a desperate woman for #abortion.
February 24, 2026 at 4:40 PM
DYK in 1929 police raided #MargaretSanger’s Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau to arrest doctors & nurses & seize supplies & confidential records? This violation of patient’s rights aroused strong support for #BirthControl from the medical profession & community leaders.
January 6, 2026 at 3:41 PM
DYK #MargaretSanger’s 1926 “Happiness in Marriage” advised that #SexualExpression was an art, but agreed w/#Balzac that the average husband’s #SexualTechnique was like “an orangutang trying to play a violin”? Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
May 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
#OTD #May6, 1917 private showing #MargaretSanger’s film #Birth Control. Sanger had scheduled it to open publicly the next night, but #NYC officials banned it as obscene and it was never shown publicly. #ComstockAct woodstockwhisperer.info/2016/05/06/m...
Margaret Sanger Birth Control | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley
Margaret Sanger Birth Control Edwin Black wrote a history of the eugenics movement, War Against the Weak "Sanger was no racist. Nor was she anti-Semitic"
woodstockwhisperer.info
May 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The #AmericanBirthControlLeague, #MargaretSanger's earlier version of #PlannedParenthood, incorporated on #ThisDayInHistory in 1922. Its argument that children should be conceived in love & financial security, and by the conscious desire of women, is controversial only to pricks.
April 5, 2026 at 4:00 PM