"Sanger’s experience as a nurse was galvanizing. It fortified what would become her lifelong commitment to help women escape the poverty, illnesses, and deaths that were caused by having too many pregnancies. She summed up the misery of all the women she nursed with her famous story about Mrs. Sadie Sachs. Mrs. Sachs had nearly died after a self-induced abortion. She asked her doctor how she and her husband, Jake, could avoid getting pregnant again. Sanger was horrified by the doctor’s advice: “Tell Jack to sleep on the roof.”