What female headed up the start of legalizing abortions in the USA? Reasons behind it? Religious Views?

Question

the key word is the 'start' of...
I am not looking for opinions but facts. I will give you a hint: started in the 20's

Here is another clue: She started what is now called Planned Parenthood.
10 points if you are the first to be right

Answer 1

From good ole' wikipedia:
Planned Parenthood began as the National Birth Control League, which was founded in 1916 under the leadership of Mary Ware Dennett, a friend of Margaret Sanger, an outspoken proponent of eugenics. The organization was later renamed the American Birth Control League under the direction of Sanger, a birth control and family planning advocate who had been jailed numerous times for breaking New York's Comstock Laws against disseminating birth control information. Sanger had fled to England to avoid arrest at the time the National Birth Control League was founded. The League was influential in liberalizing laws against birth control throughout the 1920s and 1930s before changing its name to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. in 1942.

From the Planned Parenthood website :
1916
Margaret Sanger and her sister, Ethel Byrne, both nurses, and a third woman, Fania Mindell, open the first birth control clinic in America in the Brownsville community of Brooklyn, New York. They provide contraceptive advice to desperately poor, immigrant women who line up hours before the clinic doors open. All three, Byrne, Mindel, and Sanger are arrested and indicted under New York State's 1873 "Comstock Law," which forbids the dissemination of birth control information. Sanger's arrest is her second for violating a Comstock law: two years earlier she was indicted under a federal Comstock statute for sending birth control information through the U.S. mails in her publication, The Woman Rebel.

1922
With the loyalty and financial backing of a growing number of educated women and men attracted to the birth control movement by the lectures she delivers around the world, Sanger emerges as the international leader of the birth control movement. On April 26, she legally incorporates the American Birth Control League, an ambitious new organization whose mission goes beyond simply legalizing birth control and embraces such global issues as limiting world population growth, bringing about disarmament, and ending world famine.

1923
Sanger opens the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau in New York to dispense contraceptives to women under the supervision of a licensed physician and to study the effect of contraception upon women's health in order to broaden interpretation of the Comstock law and allow women to contracept for health reasons. (Existing laws allow men to use condoms to protect themselves from sexually transmitted infection — but not for contraception.)

I read the official website bio on Margaret Sanger, but didn't see anything regarding her religious beliefs.

Answer 2

Abortion is criminal. the excellent ingredient i can furnish you with is this: there aren't any data. without data assisting at the same time as existence starts--at delivery or idea--there is not any aspect to making a ban. If a actuality replaced into formed that existence starts at idea (the prompt the sperm meets the egg) of route abortion will be homicide. If a actuality replaced into formed that existence starts at delivery then abortion does not be considered homicide. until eventually we've a actuality about at the same time as existence starts we received't get the information had to created a nicely-rounded regulation. at present the pro-existence (anti-abortion) debate is in conserving with beliefs, hypothesizes, morals, and theories. In a united states of america the position not all and diverse stocks a similar beliefs--we could continually not have a regulation formed entirely upon a concept in straightforward words 1/2 of the country has. The question is can we base a regulation or ban on abortion at the same time as there aren't any data to help at the same time as existence starts? i truly do not imagine so.

Answer 3

what legalized abortion was the case ROE V. WADE. what i recall she lied by saying that she was raped...I'm very religious but i am Pro-Choice for the simple fact that people dont know how you live, what you go through so maybe the abortion is the best thing to do...say you do drugs and have been doing it when u didnt know u were pregnant, you dont know how the baby will come out and also how you'll support it...some people say that you are killing a human being but this is my argument, say you keep the kid but have no means to raise it, you raise it on the streets, the kid goes into drugs, robs others or even kills...isnt that anoyther form of killing? by far the worse because not only are you killing the body but you are also killing the soul...some people get abortions just to save the kid from that kind of life...abortions are a question of circumstances because if everything was AOK in your life you wouldnt even be tihnking of it!

Answer 4

Court Case Roe vs. Wade. Women think that since it is their bodies then they have the right to do whatever they want to with their bodies. But its not their body they are killing. Its their baby's. Its a baby, not a fetus or muscle tissue, its a baby. And abortion is murder and murder is wrong. If women had the right to do what they wanted to with their bodies then why is prostitutuion illegal?

Answer 5

Women were already doing it and they wanted it legalized so as to make it safer. it's not like it wasn't going on before it was legal, they just wanted to make it safer. Compare in contrast our drugs to Amsterdam's and you'll see what the difference is between legal and illegal. Illegal doesn't neccesarily mean not happening. By legalizing it, we make it a safer alternative for women.

religious views? yeah there's lots of em.