<P> Margaret Higgins Sanger ( born Margaret Louise Higgins , September 14 , 1879 -- September 6 , 1966 , 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 . </P>
<P> Margaret Higgins Sanger ( born Margaret Louise Higgins , September 14 , 1879 -- September 6 , 1966 , 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 . </P>
who pioneered the birth control clinic in the u.s
who pioneered the birth control clinic in the u.s
Margaret Higgins Sanger ( born Margaret Louise Higgins , September 14 , 1879 -- September 6 , 1966 , also known as Margaret Sanger Slee )
Margaret Higgins Sanger ( born Margaret Louise Higgins , September 14 , 1879 -- September 6 , 1966 , also known as Margaret Sanger Slee )