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THE MOVEMENT FOR BIRTH CONTROL
Birth control has a relationship with the citizenship of women. It has a direct effect on
women, as they are responsible for raising children. Sex without protection is irresponsible as it
leads to unplanned pregnancies, which are not only a burden to the women but the economy at
large. It is thus a requirement for citizenship as citizenship is not about having documents but the
ability to participate in democratic activities.
The blacks form a birth control movement to spearhead their right and educate other
blacks on various ways of family planning (Jessie, 1989). A full citizen does not face oppression
in the form of slavery. Slaves had no rights and were abused sexually by the whites' often.
However, the blacks devised their methods of birth control like fleeing for safety when the
whites tried to molest them. The various movements formed yet ended this regime where black
women were for sex apparatus for the oppressors.
Protection of birth control is as crucial as other rights spearheaded by unions. It also has a
relation to citizenship, as it is a means of redistributing wealth among the few existent beings. It
is right to sexual citizenship as birth control is sex without reproduction. It is human nature for
people to desire sex. Therefore, birth control has a relationship with citizenship of women, as
they are the same people engaging in the act.
Margaret Sanger challenges the laws of the United States as to not allowing any
conversations on birth control (Hankins, 1939). However, it is evident from her research that
people were just under oppression; they were interested in birth control measures. There were
millions of women in need of the contraceptives not readily available.
