Birth Control Movement
Margaret Sanger was a Social Reformer who helped increase the popularity of contraception in the U.S. Importantly, she believed that a woman should be able to control her own reproductive system to ensure true gender equality. After being exposed to the struggles of immigrant families involving childbirth and miscarriage, Sanger opened a birth control clinic in 1916. After facing trial and losing on the merit that women didn't have "the right to copulate with a feeling of security that there will be no resulting conception", Sanger gained significant amounts of support. She finally founded the American Birth Control League after World War I, which founded many birth control and education facilities, and encouraged women to understand their bodies. This institution later became Planned Parenthood, currently the largest organization providing reproductive health and education services.