Planned Parenthood
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The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA), or simply Planned Parenthood, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides reproductive and sexual healthcare, and sexual education in the United States and globally. It is a member of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).
Margaret Sanger (1922), the first president and founder of Planned Parenthood
A Planned Parenthood supporter participates in a demonstration in support of the organization
Leana Wen in April 2017
Planned Parenthood activists meeting with then-Senator Kamala Harris in 2017
Margaret Sanger
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Margaret Higgins Sanger, also known as Margaret Sanger Slee, was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control", opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Sanger in 1922
This page from Sanger's Family Limitation, 1917 edition, describes a cervical cap.
Sanger published the Birth Control Review from 1917 to 1929.
W. E. B. Du Bois served on the board of Sanger's Harlem clinic.