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believed that women should enter the modern age by seeking employment, in essence leaving their domestic responsibilities to paid employees. Sexually, they strongly advocated the use of birth control. This movement was led by Margaret Sanger. Sanger visited immigrant neighborhoods in New York's East Side, distributing leaflets about contraception, in the hopes of preventing unwanted pregnancies. Her birth control crusade won the support of many middle-class women, who believed contraception would limit the size of their own families, as well as controlling the immigrant population. She did have opponents, however. Some believed that birth control movement posed a threat to the family and to morality. In 1914 Sanger was arrested for sending obscene material (contraceptive information) by mail, and she fled the country for a year. In 1921 she formed the American Birth Control League, a group which enlisted doctors and social workers to push judges to allow the distribution of ...

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