ets. Sanger was sentenced to thirty days in jail. She appealed her conviction, calling the New York law unconstitutional because under it women were obliged to risk death in pregnancy against their will. The judges decision, a breakthrough interpretation, did not overturn the conviction, but instead altered the statutes meaning by ruling that physicians could give birth control information to married women specifically for the cure and prevention of venereal disease. It was because of this decision that Sanger was able to open a legal birth control clinic in 1923. This loophole allowed Sanger the opportunity to open a legal, doctor-run birth control clinic in 1923. (Katz, 2) Sangers imprisonment, her sisters ordeal, and the death of her daughter, combined with the socially acceptable supporters she had begun to attract, brought her national prominence and sympathy, and she received invitations to speak all over the United States. Her causes were, thus, firmly launched. Margaret Sanger is known to have created more societal change during her lifetime than any other women since Isabelle of Spain. (Murphy, 1) Margaret Sanger published the Woman Rebel, a radical feminist monthly that advocated militant feminism, including the right to practice birth control. (Katz, 1) The publication of The Woman Rebel laid the foundation for the future work of the birth control movement and the personal crusade of Margaret Sanger. She continued to challenge the Comstock Laws by opening the nation's first birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn in 1916, founding the Birth Control Review in 1917, and by organizing the first American birth control conference in New York in 1921. Sanger brought into existence the American Birth Control League that same year, and by 1923 opened the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau, the criterion for a national network of doctor staffed clinics that sprang up around the country in the 1920s and 1930s. Staffed by fem...
