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  1. "Comstockery in America", The Woman Rebel - by Margaret Sanger

    Date(s): July 1915 to 1915 Location: New York, New York Tag(s): The Woman Rebel, Anthony Comstock, birth control, Comstock Law, Margaret Sanger 

      In 1914, Margaret Sanger fought for women and their right to have control over their own bodies. She was shocked that working-class women were unable to obtain safe and effective birth control. Sanger began providing them with the information and the knowledge to have a say regarding what they would do with their bodies in and out of marriage; the right to decide if they would become a mother or...