Margaret Sanger Analysis

At last, work has ended for the day and I decide to unwind with a latte. I am settled at a table in my local coffee shop enjoying the view out of the window on the second floor. As I was gazing out the window, I hadn’t realized that two other people are sitting down next to me. To my surprise, I look up and see Margaret Sanger and FDR side by side across from me. I almost spit out my latte in shock! They ask me how I am doing, and I start to explain to them how I am working on an ideal society project for college. I tell them how my group had decided on a socialist government with high taxes, a strong education system, with many exports like fruit and jewelry. Our country would be located on an island rich in minerals, which we would use for
She pulls out a copy of The Woman Rebel and starts to read to me. “The aim of this paper will be to stimulate working women to think for themselves and to build up a conscious fighting character” (Sanger, 1). She mentions how women are “enslaved by the world machine, by sex conventions, by motherhood and its present necessary child-rearing” (Sanger, 3). Sanger wants me to know that women should not be condemned to having child after child due to lack of knowledge about birth control and how to obtain it. Women should be free to have control of their bodies. Her beliefs were that it takes two people to have sex, so why should the women face more consequences than the men? She explained how having a baby is extremely taxing for a woman more so than on a man. Women will forever live with the damages to their bodies and their minds. Without birth control, women will have children hanging off of them and will be withered away by the overload of motherly duties, she says. Her suggestions have taught me that it is only fair to women to have free birth control since they receive the short-end of the stick when it comes to being able to prevent pregnancy and take care of their bodies and lives. Women should have the right to prevent pregnancy or to terminate an early pregnancy/a pregnancy that is threatening
FDR read to me this knowledge, “It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people—whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth- is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill housed, and insecure.” (FDR, 1) I learned from FDR that it is society’s choice to decide how smoothly we run and we all need to put in the effort or change will never happen and we will not prosper. Everyone deserves to be fed, clothed, housed, and content. Adding to FDR’s readings, Sanger left me with a final question to ponder on as I create my ideal society-- “Is there any reason why women should not receive clean, harmless, scientific knowledge on how to prevent conception?” (Sanger,1) From Margaret Sanger I learned that in order for women to keep their jobs, have enough money to provide for their children, and to have control of their bodies more completely, birth control needs to be free and accessible in my ideal society--as well as other procedures for women’s reproductive and mental health. To answer her question--there is no reason why women shouldn’t at least have the knowledge that there are resources out there. With this advice, I would make sure to