Happy Birthday, Margaret Sanger
Sep. 14th, 2009 08:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomOn this date in 1879. Coined the term "birth control", founded Planned Parenthood, that kinda stuff. Definitely some controversial views, including "negative eugenics", but she did a lot of good, much of which lasts to this day.
What are some of your preferred causes these days? Link 'em up.
What are some of your preferred causes these days? Link 'em up.
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Date: 2009-09-14 01:39 pm (UTC)http://www.modestneeds.org/
It speaks very strongly to me - when I was a teenager, my family almost got turned down for some of the low-rent housing being built although my mom was only being paid 10% of the revenue earned by a slowly dying take-n-bake pizza shop, that was still too much money for their guidelines. There are plenty of charities that will throw in and help out when you've hit the absolute bottom, but I think it's awesome there's at least one out there that is thinking "Hey, what if we throw a *little* bit of help their way to *prevent* them from hitting the absolute bottom?".