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Have you ever seen the movie "Iron Jawed Angels"? If not, you should.

Hilary Swank is in it and It's about the women's suffrage movement and it goes into great detail about the suffering these women endured so that we would have the right to vote. Some lost their husbands; some were beaten; some were imprisoned; some went on hunger strikes. They were among the bravest women I have ever seen. I don't know how they they endured all that suffering.

And yet today, all we have to do is go down and register to vote and so many can't even do that.

Another good movie is about Margaret Higgins Sanger 1879 – 1966). She was an American birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse. Sanger coined the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established Planned Parenthood. Sanger's efforts contributed to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case which legalized contraception in the United States.

Sanger's activism was influenced by the conditions of her youth—her mother had 18 pregnancies in 22 years, and died at age 50 of tuberculosis and cervical cancer.

In 1916, Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, which led to her arrest for distributing information on contraception. Her subsequent trial and appeal generated enormous support for her cause.

Sanger felt that in order for women to have a more equal footing in society and to lead healthier lives, they needed to be able to determine when to bear children. She also wanted to prevent back-alley abortions, which were dangerous and usually illegal at that time.

In 1921, Sanger founded the American Birth Control League, which later became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Every woman should see these two movies so they'll know the suffering that other women went through so that we would have the rights we have today. No one GAVE us these rights. Women TOOK them. I don't want to be the generation that loses them.