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“Margaret Sanger Speaks” is a one-woman play in which Margaret Sanger, the pioneer of birth control, reminisces to an audience on the origins of Planned Parenthood and her battle for women’s reproductive rights in the first half of the Twentieth Century. She recalls how her advocacy for access to birth control and her opening of the first US birth control clinic got her arrested and imprisoned. During her...
“Margaret Sanger Speaks” is a one-woman play in which Margaret Sanger, the pioneer of birth control, reminisces to an audience on the origins of Planned Parenthood and her battle for women’s reproductive rights in the first half of the Twentieth Century. She recalls how her advocacy for access to birth control and her opening of the first US birth control clinic got her arrested and imprisoned. During her monologue, she assumes the roles of several of the characters who were pivotal at different times in her life. The play is set in 1955, just as the first birth control pill was about to go into clinical trials. At the end of the play, she confronts her own controversial association with the eugenics movement.