What Was the Response to Margaret Sanger's First Efforts to Launch

question 39

Multiple Choice

What was the response to Margaret Sanger's first efforts to launch a movement for birth control in 1915?

• A) Theodore Roosevelt publicly endorsed her efforts.
• B) Boston and Chicago lobbied her to open clinics in those cities.
• C) Medical associations openly declared their support for her tactics and goals.
• D) She was faced with the prospect of arrest for distributing obscene information.

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Definitions:

Cultural Relativists

Adherents to the view that moral or ethical systems, which vary from culture to culture, are all equally valid and no one system is really "better" than any other.

Moral Absolutism

The thesis that at least some moral values and rules are universal. See absolutism.

Cultural Relativism

The view that cultures, as a matter of fact, have different views about what is morally right and wrong.

Ethical Relativism

A philosophical viewpoint suggesting that moral principles are valid only relative to specific social, cultural, or personal contexts.