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[Sep 10, 2004]
Business Week magazine in its Sept. 13 issue profiled Planned Parenthood Federation of America founder Margaret Sanger -- the United States' first "birth control champion" -- as part of a weekly series on the "greatest innovators of the past 75 years." Sanger, who began her career as an obstetrical nurse in New York, was "[f]urious at the fortunes" of women such as her mother -- who had 11 children and seven miscarriages and died an "early death from the ravages of so many births," Business Week reports. Sanger's "greatest achievement" was "spearheading the effort to create America's first nearly foolproof oral contraceptive," according to Business Week. The birth control pill "exerted a mythic transformation of 20th century society" -- more than the atomic bomb, the airplane or the Internet -- by "redistributing power in the bedroom, the classroom and the workplace," Business Week reports. However, Sanger has been criticized for her support of eugenics and the testing of oral contraceptives -- in sometimes fatal doses -- during the 1950s on low-income Puerto Rican women, according to Business Week (Conlin, Business Week, 9/13). The complete article is available http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_37/b3899026_mz072.htm[online.
Business Week magazine in its Sept. 13 issue profiled Planned Parenthood Federation of America founder Margaret Sanger -- the United States' first "birth control champion" -- as part of a weekly series on the "greatest innovators of the past 75 years." Sanger, who began her career as an obstetrical nurse in New York, was "[f]urious at the fortunes" of women such as her mother -- who had 11 children and seven miscarriages and died an "early death from the ravages of so many births," Business Week reports. Sanger's "greatest achievement" was "spearheading the effort to create America's first nearly foolproof oral contraceptive," according to Business Week. The birth control pill "exerted a mythic transformation of 20th century society" -- more than the atomic bomb, the airplane or the Internet -- by "redistributing power in the bedroom, the classroom and the workplace," Business Week reports. However, Sanger has been criticized for her support of eugenics and the testing of oral contraceptives -- in sometimes fatal doses -- during the 1950s on low-income Puerto Rican women, according to Business Week (Conlin, Business Week, 9/13). The complete article is available http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_37/b3899026_mz072.htm[online.