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Nov 27, 2017 · Margaret Sanger was a fervent opponent of abortion, and Planned Parenthood was founded to try to get women to substitute contraception for abortion. She called abortion abhorrent, a disgraced to a ...
Jul 24, 2020 · Today, Planned Parenthood North Central States released a statement denouncing problematic portions of the organization’s history with founder Margaret Sanger. We are owning our organization’s history and are committed to addressing the implicit bias and structural racism within our organization and communities.
Sanger and Eugenics. Eugenics is a theory of improving hereditary qualities by socially controlling human reproduction. Eugenicists, including the Nazis, were opposed to the use of contraception or abortion by healthy and “fit” women (Grossmann, 1995). In fact, Sanger’s books were among the very first burned by the Nazis in their campaign ...
Jul 6, 2020 · Sanger’s Planned Parenthood, Birthed in Eugenic Racism. “Planned Parenthood was founded by a racist, white woman.”. No, this sentence was not penned by some pro-life activist, pushing back against the whitewashing of the legacy of Margaret Sanger by Planned Parenthood. Astonishingly, it appears in a statement signed by hundreds of current ...
Sep 30, 2015 · Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist. She believed that people like me should be eliminated, or kept under control." At a press conference later, he specified what he meant by "people like me." He ...
Jul 21, 2020 · July 21, 2020 6:38 PM EDT. O n Tuesday, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York announced that it would be removing the name of Margaret Sanger, the organization’s founder, from the group’s ...
Jul 23, 2020 · If Margaret Sanger sounds familiar, it’s because you might have encountered her in history class. A nurse and educator, Sanger opened in 1916 the first birth control clinic in the United States ...
