Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story

Mar 8, 1995

1h 32m

★ 4.0

Overview

Nurse Margaret Sanger became a pioneering crusader for women's reproductive rights after she published a booklet on birth control techniques that flew in the face of a law established by Anthony Comstock forbidding the dissemination of information on contraception. Sanger later helped to establish America's first birth control clinic in 1916, and in 1925 was one of the founders of Planned Parenthood.

Genres

Drama

TV Movie

Production Companies

Hearst Entertainment & Syndication

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Cast

Margaret Sanger

Dana Delany

Bill Sanger

Henry Czerny

Anthony Comstock

Rod Steiger

Anita Block

Julie Khaner

Mr. Schlesinger

Tom McCamus

Ed Cady

Wayne Robson

Arnold Scopes

Yank Azman

Heller

Jeff Pustil

Mr. Higgins

Kenneth Welsh

Narrator

Jason Priestley

Dr. Benjamin

Ron Hartmann

Nan Higgins

Catherine Barroll

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