Mike Wallace Interviews Margaret Sanger on Birth Control

On September 21, 1957 Mike Wallace, who worked with ABC at the time, interviewed Margaret Sanger on her advocacy of birth control.  This interview was prior to the introduction of the birth control pill in 1960, the feminist movement of the 1960's, and the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision on January 22, 1973.  Much of her philosophy was later implemented in American society through the court system.  Sanger's ideas on birth control and child birth were considered "revolutionary" at the time.  She spent her life embarking on a crusade to legalize birth control.   During her early years in trying to promote contraceptives, she was jailed for trying to promote birth control.  She was the founder of Planned Parenthood (1916), which has aided many young women in committing abortions.  She was opposed to abortion, due to the effect that it could have on mothers physically.  Even though she was a believer in birth control, she didn't believe abortion should be used as a method of birth control.  Consequently, some of those that are advocates of Margaret Sanger's theories on birth control today believe that women should have the right to use abortion as a means of birth control.  Sadly, Planned Parenthood has played a role in aborting many babies from the mothers' wombs, which was something that Sanger opposed. 

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