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Margret Higgins was among the early feminists as well as the activists for the women rights and to whom is credited for the naming it ‘birth control’ and also worked hard in ensuring its enactment (Sanger, 2016). Sanger was born on 14th September 1879. She was born in Corning, New York. She moved to Greenwich Village in 1910 and initiated a publication that aimed at promoting the rights of women to Planned Parenthood. She was forced to flee her country due to the obscenity laws until 1915 when she went back. After her return from exile, Margaret opened the first clinic in the United States that was concerned with birth control. Margret Sanger dedicated her entire life to fight for the rights of women, and she died in 1966.

Margaret Sanger advocated for the rights of women in birth control through her speeches and writings to which she used to convey messages to the women (Ross et al. 2016). The main reason as to why she wanted to advocate the women’s right is because her mother was a victim whereby she had so many kids, and this affected her health greatly. Sanger on seeing this became concerned and therefore took an initiative to help the women to control their births and have children of their choice and thereby protecting their health. The government arrested her for being involved in the distribution of information to the women while it was against the law to provide such information to women. Sanger believed that it was essential to liberate the women from the unplanned pregnancies for a social change to be generated. With her determination, she eventually founded the American Birth Control League in the year 1921, and this initiative later developed to the Planned Parenthood.

Susan B. was a suffragist, author, speaker, and an abolitionist and as well as the leader of the National American Women Suffrage Association (DuBois, 2018). She was born on February 15th of the year 1820 and died on March 13th of 1906. Susan was a lecturer and a writer and was forefront in ensuring the women’s right to vote. Susan was brought up in Quaker household and worked as a teacher. She partnered with Elizabeth and to whom they eventually became leaders of the women association in the fight for the voting rights.

Susan was an American social rights activist and played an instrumental role in various issues affecting the women. Among her work included the campaigning for the equal rights for both women and the African American. Susan also worked to abolish slavery and therefore played a significant role in ensuring not only equality in the rights of women but also for both men and women from the minority communities. Susan together with Elizabeth Cady was involved in the collection of signatures to petition the Congress for the right to vote and urged the politicians to consider an amendment to the constitution allowing the women to participate in voting. Susan was successful in her fight for the suffrage rights as the amendment famously known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment was passed through it was after her death in the year 1919 (Chambers, 2018).

Margaret and Susan had a lot of major similarities in their career. One of the similarities is that both were activists fighting for the social rights of women in an era that women were not much regarded. Another similarity is that both of the women were writers and therefore they used their authorship skills to formulate messages to which they used to air their grievances as well as advocating for the rights of women. Both of the women dedicated their entire lives in serving the community, using most of their resources and skills to nature other leaders to whom assisted them in the advocacy role of fighting for the rights of the women. The two women were leaders at different levels and therefore were equipped with various leadership skills that aided them to organize rallies making them be more vocal and attracting a large number of crowd.

By spending their entire lives in fighting for the rights of the women in the country, they depicted a similarity as selfless leaders who were had vowed to improve the lives of their fellow women. The two women, Susan and Margret, were successful in the advocating role as both initiatives started by the women came to being. With Margret’s case in the fight for Planned Parenthood, she was able to set an organization that advocated for the family planning issues, and at the same time, she was successful in that she started the first family planning clinic in the United States. Susan on the other side as well as successful and this can be seen through the abolishment of slavery and the groundbreaking amendment that was named after her, the 19th amendment that guaranteed for the women’s right to vote.

Despite the two women, Susan and Margaret had several distinctions that made them unique from one another. One of the major differences is that both had taken a different route despite their union in fighting for the rights of women. Susan was much focused on ensuring and advocating for the rights of the women to vote while at the same time fighting for the abolition of slavery and discrimination. In general, Susan focused on the fight for equality between the men and women especially in the guarantee of the voting rights. Margaret, on the other hand, specialized in the fight for the birth control rights that was also in the line for the rights of women. She emphasized the rights of women to have planned pregnancies such that they could monitor and maintain the health of the mothers through controlled births. The two women, therefore, played a crucial role in ensuring social change as well as ensuring gender equality and the rights of women.

Reference

Chambers, J. (2018). Abigail Scott Duniway and Susan B. Anthony in Oregon: Hesitate No Longer. Arcadia Publishing.

DuBois, E. C. (2018). Women’s Rights, Suffrage, and Citizenship, 1789–1920. The Oxford Handbook of American Women’s and Gender History, 443.

Ross, L., GutiŽrrez, E., Gerber, M., & Silliman, J. (2016). Undivided rights: Women of color organizing for reproductive justice. Haymarket Books.

Sanger, M. (2016). The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 4: Round the World for Birth Control, 1920-1966. University of Illinois Press.