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(32,640 posts)Kate Hepburn's mother was a high visibility suffragette, who warned other women to only have conversations with legislators out in the hallway, never in the office, because they would be immediately smeared as immoral. She was also, with her physician husband, a proponent of contraception.
Sanger worked with legislators - and even a president - who were gung ho eugenicists, because that was the common wisdom at the time. She, however was pilloried because she was the only one among them who said that the decision whether or not to bear children must be left with the woman, and not her husband, and not the government.
Women who are true revolutionaries are made to pay a deep price for it, and are usually reviled in their own time.
History will be much, much more open eyed about and appreciative of Hillary than so many - even many "progressives" - are currently.