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    Sang·er, Margaret
    /ˈsaNGɡər/
    • 1. (1883–1966), US birth-control campaigner; full name Margaret Higgins Sanger. Her experiences as a nurse prompted her to distribute the pamphlet Family Limitation in 1914 and to found the first US birth-control clinic in 1916. She founded the American Birth Control League in 1921 and became the first president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation in 1953.