The first wave of the women’s rights movement included the birth control movement, which was most closely associated with:
Explanation
Answer: D - The birth control movement, a secondary faction of the women’s rights movement, was most closely associated with activist Margaret Sanger, a Brooklyn nurse. Sanger founded the birth control movement in 1914 with Mary Dennett and Emma Goldman (who is also remembered for being an anarchist). Sanger wrote numerous articles on the need for adequate women’s health education and available contraception to enable women to make thoughtful choices about their families and personal health. She was motivated to act by the high number of women with unwanted pregnancies and botched back-alley abortions that she treated. The birth control movement continued after 1920, when the first wave of the women’s rights movement ended. Sanger was ultimately one of the most important women in the contraception movement. Her goal of nationwide legalization and mass availability of birth control was not realized until 1965, when the U.S. Supreme Court decided in the case Griswold v. Connecticutthat the prohibition of contraception (for married women) was unconstitutional. Sanger died the following year.
