The Conference in Cleveland

margaret Sanger was born Sept. 14 (feast of the Triumph of the Cross), 1879. She was the sixth of eleven children. Her mother was a devout Catholic, her father,Michael Higgens, an apostate and a self-styled "free thinker, who did more thinking than working to support his family. He was shunned for his radical views, and Margaret feared him greatly. She described her home life as "...joyless and filled with drudgery and fear." One day, her father overheard Margaret praying the Lord's Prayer. When she came to "...Give us this day our daily bread", her father said, "Is God a baker?" Margaret answered, "He gives us the rain, and the sunshine...which makes the wheat, and them the bread>' Unimpressed,he determined to squelch her budding relationship with God. Margaret was confirmed in secret, to avoid the wrath of Higgens. But his constant attacks on her Faith finally took it's toll; but the time she was 17, she embraced a great hatred for the Church, and spent the rest of her life doing her best to undermine it.
She attended The Hudson River Institute, where she was first exposed to the cauldren of radical and revolutionary thought; politics, radical feminism, and the push for unrestricted sex. She tried out several professions, including kindergarten teaching, which she eventually quit. Then she studied nursing (never finishing her schooling, though PP advertises her as a nursing professional). She found work and studying too difficule, being naturally lazy. She finally found her way out of the tedious business of working for a living; she married money.
William Sanger was attractive and charismatic. He courted her with single-minded devotion, and within but a few months, they were married. However, she found that homemaking was ALSO work, and boring work at that. They had 3 children, 2 boys and a girl; but "fufillment still eluded her.
William had had ties in radical movenents, and attended Socialist, anarchist and Communist meetings In nY's Greenwich Village. Margaret caught the infection and soon plunged herself into rebellion and revolution.