Margaret Sanger
Supported by her two older sisters, Margaret Higgins attended Claverack College and Hudson River Institute, before enrolling in 1900 at White Plains Hospital, as a nurse probationer. In 1902, she married the architect William Sanger and gave up her education.[10] Though she was plagued by a recurring active tubercular condition, Margaret Sanger bore three children, and the couple settled down to a quiet life in Westchester, New York.
After Sanger's appeal of her conviction for the Brownsville clinic secured a 1918 court ruling that exempted physicians from the law prohibiting the distribution of contraceptive information to women (provided it was prescribed for medical reason), she established the Clinical Research Bureau (CRB) in 1923 to exploit this loophole.[11][46] The CRB was the first legal birth control clinic in the United States, staffed entirely by female doctors and social workers.[47] The clinic received extensive funding from John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his family, which continued to make anonymous donations to Sanger's causes in future decades.[48][49]
John D. Rockefeller Jr. donated five thousand dollars to her American Birth Control League in 1924 and a second time in 1925.[50] In 1922, she traveled to China, Korea, and Japan. In China she observed that the primary method of family planning was female infanticide, and she later worked with Pearl Buck to establish a family planning clinic in Shanghai.[51] Sanger visited Japan six times, working with Japanese feminist Kato Shidzue to promote birth control.[52] This was ironic, since ten years earlier Sanger had accused KatÅ of murder and praised an attempt to kill her.[53]
Sanger may have been entangled with Dorothy Parker in New York. Kay thinks Parker lived in a small building in New York and then moved to the Flat Iron or that she was visiting there during one of their writer's meetings. Kay also thinks she was involved in the Ernest Louis Duke of Hess' history with his brother "Fritty", who Kay found in 1975, to have jumped from an open window upon his brother's suggestion that he fly, if he thought he were a bird. Frederick Hohenstaufen was a falconer and this may have been some of his history. Kay discovered an essay online noting this fact about Hohenstaufen. It was claimed he gifted Ibn Sina with a polar bear and in 1982, Kay won a polar bear at the State Fair.
