| Genre: | Biography Drama |
| Director: | Paul Shapiro |
| Executive Producer: | Jennifer Alward |
| Producer: | Julian Marks Clara George Paul Shapiro |
| Based On: | Life of Margaret Sanger |
| Starring: | Dana Delany Henry Czerny Rod Steiger Julie Khaner |
| Music: | Jonathan Goldsmith |
| Cinematography: | Alar Kivilo |
| Editor: | Pia Di Ciaula |
| Company: | Hearst Entertainment Productions Morgan Hill Films Power Pictures |
| Runtime: | 92 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
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.[1]
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."[2]
The 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."[3]