Planned Parenthood in N.Y. Disavows Margaret Sanger Over Eugenics

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/nyregion/planned-parenthood-margaret-sanger-eugenics.html

Planned Parenthood in N.Y. Disavows Margaret Sanger Over Eugenics
By Nikita Stewart

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York will remove the name of Margaret Sanger, a founder of the national organization, from its Manhattan health clinic because of her “harmful connections to the eugenics movement,” the group said on Tuesday.

Ms. Sanger, a public health nurse who opened the first birth control clinic in the United States in Brooklyn in 1916, has long been lauded as a feminist icon and reproductive-rights pioneer.

But her legacy also includes supporting eugenics, a discredited belief in improving the human race through selective breeding, often targeted at poor people, those with disabilities, immigrants and people of color.

“The removal of Margaret Sanger’s name from our building is both a necessary and overdue step to reckon with our legacy and acknowledge Planned Parenthood’s contributions to historical reproductive harm within communities of color,” Karen Seltzer, the chair of the New York affiliate’s board, said in a statement.

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1. She was a racist up to her eyeballs

Like Hitler, who she liked, she believed in creating a master race by eliminating “inferior” people through enforced birth control.

But other than that she was a lovely person.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. A bigot, certainly, like most of her class at the time.

Hitler got his ideas on sterilization to control for race from the U.S., which led the world in compulsory sterilization at the time.

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3. I know!

Americans would benefit as human beings if they were taught real American history. We definitely have a very ugly underbelly. A truly dark side.

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4. Wow......had no idea.

Glad her name is gone.