... family being one of eleven children. In describing her mother, Sanger remarked in her book, My Fight For Birth Control, that: "As far as I can remember, she was always pregnant or nursing a baby..." (11). Not only disturbed by her mother's frequent pregnancies, Sanger also resented the fact her mother had no control over how many babies she was to have. After Sanger's mother died at the age of forty-eight, Sanger became a nurse. As a nurse, Sanger encountered even more aggravating incidences of poor women, risking their lives, to self-induce an abortion because they could not afford to have another child. After having witnessed countless women and her own mother go through the pain of uncontrolled child bearing, Sanger resolved there was a need to educate the lower class women about birth control. Sanger started her crusade with one goal in mind: to help the poor, lower class women ...

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