Margaret sanger brief biography of mahatma gandhi pdf

Population gauges flew past the six billion mark this fall. In mid-October, the United Nations dubbed a newborn son of Bosnian Refugees the official six billionth person.

Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood of America in and later became honorary president of International Planned Parenthood.

About the same time many population groups announced that India spilled over the one billion mark, though the Indian government will not recognize this undesirable milestone until next spring. As we try to fathom these numbers, and that other round number on everyone's mind , we thought it timely to look back at a historic meeting between two reformers who have recently turned up together on lists of most important people of the century and the millennium whose words and actions had an undeniable though incalculable effect on twentieth century population growth: Margaret Sanger and Mahatma Gandhi.

She wrote to Gandhi before her arrival. He responded: "Do by all means come whenever you can, and you shall stay with me, if you would not mind what must appear to you to be our extreme simplicity; we have no masters and no servants here" quoted in Autobiography , They met for two days in December of to discuss birth control, population and the plight of women in India.

While Sanger claimed she mainly wanted to pay her respects and give a personal tribute to Gandhi, she coveted nothing less than his endorsement of birth control. Gandhi promoted the spiritual bonds of marriage, which, he argued, were strengthened by continence. He reluctantly agreed to consider sanctioning the safe period or rhythm method, but rejected Sanger's plea for contraception to control population growth, fearing it would lead to an increase in non-procreative sex, which he viewed as immoral lust.

The Speeches and Articles of Margaret Sanger () is a -based edition of Sanger's writings that includes articles, pamphlets, speeches, stories, and interviews, produced by The .

Instead he hoped small families would become a social custom and that social pressure — maybe even appropriate laws — would force most couples to abstain from sex once their families were complete. What follows is a portion of the transcript of their discussion at Gandhi's ashram in Wardha on December 3, It was recorded in shorthand and later transcribed by Sanger's traveling secretary, Anna Jane Philips, and placed in a file of material on the India trip that Sanger put together in preparation for several articles she wrote on the meeting see LCM There is no other record of this meeting, and there is no way to insure that the transcript is accurate, though Sanger's account of her two days, included in her travel diary for , is consistent with the conversation transcript see LCM An article recounting the meeting was published in Asia Magazine in November, , but omitted several large and illuminating portions of the conversation.

The complete transcript has never been published in its entirety. Gandhi, you and I have the interest of humanity at heart but while both of us have that thing in common, you have greater influence with the masses of humanity.