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Margaret Sanger sends field workers to the South to establish birth control clinics.

1935

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In addition to providing birth control to poor communities, Sanger sets up research stations focused on testing contraceptive jellies and foams to see if they are cheaper and easier for women living in poverty to use. Much of this research is done without participants' consent.