Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story
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Director Paul Shapiro Music director Jonathan Goldsmith Writer Matt Dorff Language English | 7/10 IMDb Genre Biography, Drama Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date 8 March 1995 Nominations Gemini Award for Best Picture Editing in a Dramatic Program or Series Cast Similar movies WC Fields and Me (1978) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Choices of the Heart: The Margaret Sanger Story (1995) is an American television film about the controversial nurse Margaret Sanger who campaigned in the earlier decades of the 20th century in the United States for women's birth control.
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Plot
The New York Times wrote this summary overview: "Dana Delany stars in this made-for-TV movie as Margaret Sanger, a nurse who, in 1914, became a pioneering crusader for women's birth control (she opposed abortion) after she published a booklet on birth control techniques that flew in the face of a law established by Anthony Comstock (Rod Steiger) 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."
Critical commentary
New York Times television critic John J. O'Connor wrote the movie describes an "extraordinary woman whose contraception crusade eventually led to the founding of Planned Parenthood", adding that the movie "camouflages its sketchiness with some fine performances."
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References
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