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1. time.com › 4081760Margaret Sanger, Race and Eugenics: A Complicated History | TIME

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   Oct 14, 2016 · An advocate for women’s reproductive rights who was also a vocal eugenics enthusiast, Margaret Sanger leaves a complicated legacy — and one that conservatives have periodically leveraged into...

2. www.usatoday.com › story › opinionMargaret Sanger was a racist eugenics advocate who shouldn't ...

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   Remove statues of Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood founder tied to eugenics and racism. How a woman who advocated for the selective breeding of her fellow citizens came to be memorialized...

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4. www.americamagazine.org › politics-society › 2020Margaret Sanger’s extreme brand of eugenics | America Magazine

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   Jul 28, 2020 · Her much-republished “My Way to Peace” (1932) presents Sanger’s essential eugenics platform. It argues that to preserve racial hygiene, the government should enact three coercive...

5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Margaret_SangerMargaret Sanger - Wikipedia

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   Sanger has been criticized for supporting eugenics, including negative eugenics. [8] . Some historians believe her support of negative eugenics, a popular stance at that time, was a rhetorical tool rather than a personal conviction. [9] . In 2020, Planned Parenthood disavowed Sanger, citing her past record with eugenics and racism. [10] [11]

6. www.americamagazine.org › politics-society › 2017Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist. Why are we still ...

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   Nov 27, 2017 · Named after Margaret Sanger (1879-1966), the founder of the Birth Control League (the future Planned Parenthood), the square honors an improbable feminist icon who championed a coercive brand...

7. womanisrational.uchicago.edu › 2022/09/21 › margaretMargaret Sanger: Ambitious Feminist and Racist Eugenicist

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   Sep 21, 2022 · Sanger strongly backed the field of eugenics and saw birth control as an innovative and safe way to medically allow for limiting the abilities of certain populations to reproduce.

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   Was Sanger a eugenicist?

   • Race was never far from Sanger’s brand of eugenics. One of Sanger’s most cherished initiatives was the Negro Project, which targeted predominantly black neighborhoods for birth control programs and recruited African-American leaders to persuade minority populations of the value of contraception and sterilization.

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   What is Sanger's eugenics project?

   • Sanger represents a genteel prejudice shared by many members of America’s ruling class in the early 20th century. Sanger’s eugenics project carried its own racial preoccupation.

   Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist. Why are we still celebrating her

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   Who is Margaret Sanger?

   • An advocate for women’s reproductive rights who was also a vocal eugenics enthusiast, Margaret Sanger leaves a complicated legacy — and one that conservatives have periodically leveraged into sweeping attacks on the organization she helped found: Planned Parenthood.

   Margaret Sanger, Race and Eugenics: A Complicated History | TIME

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   Why did Sanger use eugenics language?

   • [Sanger] adopted the mainstream eugenics language of the day, partly as a tactic, since many eugenicists opposed birth control on the grounds that the educated would use it more. Though her own work was directed toward voluntary birth control and public health programs, her use of eugenics language probably helped justify sterilization abuse.

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   How many people were forcibly sterilized under Sanger's eugenics laws?

   • At least 70,000 people in the United States were forcibly sterilized under the laws promoted by Sanger and her associates. Far more, especially women prisoners and women on welfare, were surreptitiously sterilized. Race was never far from Sanger’s brand of eugenics.

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   Was Sanger's eugenics rhetoric a political ploy?

   • As Gloria Steinem pointed out in a 1998 essay for TIME, Sanger’s embrace of the eugenics rhetoric may have been less a heartfelt belief than a political ploy to broaden birth control’s appeal. But even speaking the language of eugenics could be insidious. Steinem writes:

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9. www.reuters.com › article › fact-checkPlanned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger’s 1939 quote on ...

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   May 9, 2022 · The NYU’s Margaret Sanger Papers Project acknowledged that Sanger was a supporter of eugenics, a now-discredited practice of selective breeding with specific characteristics, and described...