Did birth control give women freedom or did it fundamentally change feminism itself?

Before the 1960s sexual revolution, before the Pill became mainstream, Margaret Sanger was already advancing a radical idea: that women could not be free unless their fertility was controlled. She didn’t just promote contraception, she reframed it as essential to freedom, autonomy, and progress.

But what if that idea didn’t actually expand freedom… what if it redefined womanhood?

In this episode of Bioethics Babe, I sit down with Dr. Angela Franks, theologian, author of Margaret Sanger’s Eugenic Legacy: The Control of Female Fertility, to uncover the deeper story behind the birth control movement.

We explore:

• How early feminism shifted from supporting women as mothers, to controlling fertility
• Why Sange ...