Nurse and midwife Margaret Sanger opened the first birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, where 'purity police' promptly arrested her.

As the director of the birth-control clinic at Presbyterian Hospital, he considered the existing restrictions "inhumane and unrealistic."

In the early 1990's, he was a co-director of a documentary on Margaret Sanger, who helped open the first birth-control clinic in the United States.

Some principals, he said, might be more comfortable with referring students to outside birth-control clinics rather than distributing condoms themselves.

Delia, a friend next door, is a Margaret Sanger disciple on a mission to open a birth-control clinic in Harlem.

The organization has its roots in Brooklyn, New York, where Margaret Sanger opened the country's first birth-control clinic.

He was active in family planning at Bellevue and in the late 1960's founded a birth-control clinic in Harlem.

In 1921, Marion joined Sanger in establishing America's first birth-control clinic.

Margaret Sanger opens first birth-control clinic, on Amboy St. in Brooklyn.

Handbill announcing the opening, in 1916, of the first birth-control clinic in the United States, in Brooklyn.