Margaret Sanger Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis of A Decision Made.

Margaret Sanger Essay | Essay

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A Decision Made

Summary: Rarely do people think completely through the possible consequences of a decision before acting upon it. Activist and reformer Margaret Sanger was among the exceptions. She knew the possible consequences of her decision in the early 1900s to inform women about contraceptives. Yet Sanger believed it was important to help women protect themselves so they can achieve greater personal freedom; she accepted whatever consequences came her way and changed society for the better as a result.

Across the period of one's life, decisions are made, consequences are endured, and rewards are accepted. In most instances, one does not think before they act on possible actions or decisions; however it is the rare few that do think, and do realize the cause and effect of decisions about to be made.

Margaret Sanger was an advocate for women's rights, a nurse, a feminist, and most important she offered women information about contraceptives, something that was relatively hidden from many women in the early 1900's. Margaret Sanger may have single handily changed the fact that "women would achieve personal freedom by experiencing their sexuality free of consequence" (Margaret Sanger, 1).

As a nurse she saw failed abortions, a plague of infant death, and the STD's syphilis and gonorrhea. Although condoms were available for men only, "they were dispensed mainly as prophylactics against venereal disease for those who dallied...

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