Margaret Sanger was the first person in the US to promote birth control and struggle to legalise contraception.
Producer Justine Ciarrocchi’s focuses on her figure in her new film. The movie will be based on Ellen Feldman’s novel Terrible Virtue about the establishment of the American Birth Control League and Planned Parenthood.
Sanger opened the first clinic defending reproductive rights in 1916. She was the first to tell American women about birth control measures. Sanger was charged with “distributing obscene materials.” Earlier, she was prosecuted for her 1914 book Family Limitation.
In 1921, she founded what is now known all over the world as Planned Parenthood. The organisation works in 12 countries, providing reproductive health services, promoting sexual education, helping research reproductive technologies and defending reproductive rights, including the right to abortion. Sanger is the object of severe criticism from pro-lifers though her organisation didn’t offer abortions in her lifetime.
Not only did Margaret Sanger make birth control methods and contraception affordable but she also strengthened the role of women as a whole. She believed the right to choose when and how many children, if any, women had helped them become more independent and control their life. It promoted gender equality.
“The scope of Sanger’s complexity, both as a revolutionary and human being, is extraordinary. I blew through Feldman’s novel with such urgency, struck by the nuance, transparency and daring of her portrait. Her story explores the often brutal nature of activism and, most audaciously, the plight of the female soul,” says producer of the would-be film Justine Carriocchi.
Margaret Sanger remains an iconic figure for progressive political activists and feminists and one of the main villains for the anti-abortion movement. Work on the film about her life and activity begins at the time when opponents of Sanger’s ideas led by Donald Trump are getting more and more influence in the US and around the world. In autumn, Polish conservatives initiated a bill on a full ban on abortions. The bill didn’t pass the parliament after mass protests across Poland and solidarity rallies abroad.
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