About The Clinic

The Margaret Sanger Clinic was the first women’s health clinic to legally give out birth control in the United States. The clinic was opened on January 2, 1923. In April 1929, police raided the clinic taking records, equipment, and arrested Dr. Hannah Stone, the director of the clinic, as well as four other staff members. Later a judge dismissed the case because there was not enough sufficient evidence. After Margaret Sanger died in 1966, Bill Clinton (the president 29 years after the death of Margaret Sanger) declared the clinic a National Historic Landmark.