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To: Solon who wrote (68578)	9/6/2015 10:10:16 PM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

"Margaret Sanger was an outstanding women not because she allowed for women to be sexual without a consequence. No she was a great woman because she gave women control over their own bodies for the first time. Sure the Catholic Church was upset that now its followers can have pre-marital sex without consequences, but that didn’t stop her. Margaret wanted to give the women in the poor and working class a chance to survive and not die young from numerous child births or have children suffer because their parents couldn’t handle so many children living in poverty." Margaret Sanger 2 Replies Margaret Sanger was an early feminist, socialist, and women’s rights activist who coined the term “birth control” and worked towards its legalization. She worked towards achieving birth control for poor and working class women who were in need of a savior from the various pregnancies. In 1916 she opened the first birth control clinic in the U.S. with her sister, Sanger fought for women’s rights her entire life. ”No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother,” Sanger said. Margaret was born on September 14, 1879, in Corning, New York. She was one of 11 children born into a Roman Catholic working-class Irish American family. Her mother had several miscarriages, and Margaret believed that all of these pregnancies took a toll on her mother’s health and contributed to her early death. Sanger attended Claverack College and Hudson River Institute in 1896. She then went on to study nursing at White Plains Hospital four years later. In 1902, she married William Sanger, an architect. The couple would later move to New York City in the Manhattan area, where Sanger joined the Women’s Committee of the New York Socialist Party and the Liberal Club.She became a supporter of the Industrial Workers of the World union, she participated in a number of strikes. In 1912, Sanger started her campaign to educate women about sex by writing a newspaper column called “What Every Girl Should Know.” At the same time she also worked as a nurse on the Lower East Side, at the time a predominantly poor immigrant neighborhood. Sanger treated a number of women who had undergone “back-alley” abortions or tried to self-terminate their pregnancies. Sanger objected to the unnecessary suffering endured by these women, and began her fight to make birth control information and contraceptives available no matter a women’s social class standing. She o began dreaming of a “magic pill” to be used to control pregnancy, she believe women should have control over their own bodies and should decide when they have children. In 1914, Sanger started a feminist publication called The Woman Rebel, which promoted a woman’s right to have birth control. The monthly magazine landed her in trouble, as it was illegal to send out information on contraception through the mail. The Comstock Act of 1873 prohibited the trade in and circulation of “obscene and immoral materials.” But instead of facing a possible five-year jail sentence for the publication, Sanger fled to England. While in England, she worked in the women’s movement and researched other forms of birth control like diaphragms, which she ended up smuggling back into the United States. A year later, Sanger returned to the United States, after charges against her had been dropped. Once back in the States she began touring to promote birth control, a term that she coined. In 1916, she opened the first birth control clinic in the United States. Sanger and her staff were arrested during a raid of the Brooklyn clinic a mere nine days after it opened. They were charged with providing information on contraception and fitting women for diaphragms; Sanger and her sister spent 30 days in jail. Later she appealed her conviction, and she scored a victory for the birth control movement. The court wouldn’t overturn the earlier verdict, but it made an exception in the existing law to allow doctors to prescribe contraception to their female patients for medical reasons. Margaret Sanger was an outstanding women not because she allowed for women to be sexual without a consequence. No she was a great woman because she gave women control over their own bodies for the first time. Sure the Catholic Church was upset that now its followers can have pre-marital sex without consequences, but that didn’t stop her. Margaret wanted to give the women in the poor and working class a chance to survive and not die young from numerous child births or have children suffer because their parents couldn’t handle so many children living in poverty. Photo Courtesy of forethought-trail.org

To: Solon who wrote (68578)	9/9/2015 4:58:21 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 69300

the numbers never stop Evolution has from the beginning been influenced by the theory of Malthus. Overpopulation is a self correcting situation. One way or another the population will readjust to available resources. A big problem is that is a large part of the world population is dependent upon technology or open space or stability and when the world system is finally stretched to the breaking point it will not be a gradual change. The population adjustment will coincide with a loss of stability, competing claims on space, and abandonment of the technology that is supporting the large number of people. A feedback loop forms in which the disruptions lead to even more people unable to continue with their former role in supporting their society. People won't starve for long before they try to do something about it. Plants, animals, bugs, fungi, and every other living thing will also be impacted by sudden changes. The fossil record shows clearly that in the aftermath of these great die-offs the landscape of the world will be vastly different from it's starting condition.