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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...
Jul 23, 2020 · 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...
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Nov 27, 2017 · John J. Conley, S.J., argues that Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was a proponent of forced sterilization and segregation for people with disabilities and minorities. He calls for debaptizing Sanger Square and renaming it after Carrie Buck, a sterilization victim.
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 ...
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Abigail Shivers is a third-year undergraduate majoring in Neuroscience and Psychology. At UChicago, she is involved in and on the boards of Neuroscience Education, Undergraduate Research, and Outreach (NEURO) Club and Alpha Phi Omega (APO). She is a research assistant at the Bakkour Memory & Decision Lab where she is currently investigating the rol...
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The web page examines the dark roots of Margaret Sanger's birth control movement in America, which was influenced by eugenics and racism. It reveals how Sanger saw birth control as a way to limit the reproduction of certain groups, especially African Americans, and how she used her feminist rhetoric to advance her eugenic goals.
In the early 20th century, at a time when matters surrounding family planning or women’s healthcare were not spoken in public, Margaret Sanger founded the birth control movement and became an outspoken and life-long advocate for women’s reproductive rights.
Margaret Higgins Sanger (born Margaret Louise Higgins; September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966), also known as Margaret Sanger Slee, was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse.
