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Margaret Sanger

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United States nurse who campaigned for birth control and planned parenthood; she challenged Gregory Pincus to develop a birth control pill (1883-1966)

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When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine. H. G. Wells

Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966. Karen DeCrow

Margaret Sanger didn't just introduce the idea of birth control into our culture at large, she freed women from indenture to their bodies. Roxane Gay

Composite story: The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger, Volume 1, p. 185. This source identifies the source of Sanger's quote as: "Birth Control", Library of Congress collection of Sanger's papers: microfilm: reel 129: frame 12, April 1916. Source: Internet

C: Sharply reduce the African American population and others Margaret Sanger deemed undesirable. Source: Internet

On the contrary, Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, would appear to have much in common with Hitler. Source: Internet

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