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and breadth of the political spectrum and include Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, and Nikki Haley. Women have held every elected political office except the presidency and vice presidency. And most people believe that will come too, given time and circumstance. REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS While the fight for women’s suffrage was reaching its climax, another front for gender

US Senator Kamala Harris, a Democrat from California, campaigns for the party’s presidential nomination in New Hampshire, April 2019.

equality opened, the campaign for

reproductive rights for women. Margaret Sanger

was at the forefront of this fight. Sanger worked as a nurse in New York City’s Lower East Side, where many poor immigrants lived. Through her work, Sanger treated a number of women who had undergone back-alley abortions or tried to self-terminate their pregnancies. Sanger wanted to make birth control information and contraceptives

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