- Advocate of birth control.
- Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1981.
- Founder of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
- Publisher of the newspaper The Women Rebel.
- Since 1966, the Margaret Sanger Award has been presented by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America "to recognize leadership, excellence, and outstanding contributions to the reproductive health and rights movement".
- Inducted into the Steuben County [New York] Hall of Fame.
- Her biographer Peter Bagge, author of Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story, asserted that she was opposed to abortion for reasons that were "moral as well as practical" and would routinely refer to abortion as "killing".
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