She soon rejected her Socialist colleagues because of their insensitive attitude towards the plight of women and, from 1914 onward, championed the birth control movement in order to free women from the fear and frustration surrounding birth control. She described the plight of women on N.Y.C.'s lower East side seeking abortions after their birth control efforts had failed thusly: (quote, Fryer, p. 203). Sanger believed that the working woman had to: (quote, Reed, p. 87).