Margaret Sanger is still considered a pioneer of birth control and a women's rights activist because she did things like founded the birth control movement and opened the first birth control clinic in the United States. She coined the term "birth control" and wanted to make it legal for married couples to make this decision and give advice on family planning, both which were illegal in the US at the time. She is considered an advocated for women's reproductive rights. But she also advocated controversial things like eugenics and sterilizing people with disabilities. Some people still admire her. But she also sounds like she was not that enlightened or even radical, by todays standards, and kind of a creep. Actually, like many of the creeps from her time. Planned Parenthood of New York disavowed any connection with her in 2020 due to her support of eugenics. Here are some quotes from her. “No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.” -Margaret Sanger. “Breed, little mothers, With the tired backs and the tired hands, Breed for the owners of mills and the owners of mines, Breed a race of danger-haunted men, A race of toiling, sweating, miserable men, Breed, little mothers, Breed for the owners of mills and the owners of mines, Breed, breed, breed!” -Birth Control Review (Margaret Sanger's magazine 1917-40, on eugenics), April 1930. “In my personal experience as a trained nurse while attending persons afflicted with various and often revolting diseases, no matter what their ailments, I never found anyone so repulsive as the chronic masturbator. It would not be difficult to fill page upon page of heart-rending confessions made by young girls, whose lives were blighted by this pernicious habit, always begun so innocently.” -Margaret Sanger. “The eugenist is very clear on the two facts which have been given you this morning: That the production of the unfit should be discouraged or stopped, and that the production of the fit should be encouraged and possibly forced.” -Birth Control Review (Margaret Sanger's magazine 1917-40). “The question of homosexuals, making the thing a—not exactly a perverted thing, but a thing that a person is born with different kinds of eyes, different kinds of structures and so forth, that he [sexologist Havelock Ellis] didn't make all homosexuals perverts—and I thought he helped clarify that to the medical profession and to the scientists of the world as perhaps one of the first ones to do that.” -Margaret Sanger. “The n*gro mind is as different from the white mind as the n*gro from the white body. The typical n*gro servant, for instance, is wonderful with children, for the reason that she really enjoys doing the things that children do. You have only to go to a n****r camp‑meeting to see the African mind in operation ― the shrieks, the dancing and yelling and sweating, the surrender to the most violent emotion, the ecstatic blending of the soul of the Congo with the practice of the Salvation Army. [Intermarriage between the] n*gro and Caucasian type gives rise to all sorts of disharmonious organisms.” -Birth Control Review (Margaret Sanger's magazine 1917-40). “I naturally didn't want to see women take all the suffering of child-bearing and of pregnancies. So it was a pleasure in a sense to think that you were striking at an archaic law, which it was put on the statute books by Anthony Comstock some years ago, and a no one had stood up against it and no one had tried to change the laws, and at that time not even a doctor had a right to use the United States Mail in common carriers for books, for learning, for anything that he had to do with this question. It was considered obscene. The whole question was considered obscene.” -Margaret Sanger. “There is, first, the mere question of quantity of population, quantity of Americans in the world versus the quantity of Englishmen, versus the quantity of Africans, versus the quantity of Chinese. If you have one race whose population is going down and another whose population is going up, there is always the possibility of race suicide.” -Birth Control Review (Margaret Sanger's magazine 1917-40). “From this discussion it appears that the social and biological worth of the individual is determined by his inheritance; that the different races are radically unequal in mental endowment, and that civilization in America is threatened with deterioration through overpopulation, the unrestricted reproduction of persons of bad heredity and inferior racial constitution. The remedy is tersely given, ― Birth Control.” -Birth Control Review (Margaret Sanger's magazine 1917-40). “Of all the problems which will have to be faced in the future, in my opinion, the most difficult will be those concerning the treatment of the inferior races of mankind. We ought to decide, in the first place, whether it would be preferable that there should be a larger number of persons at a lower level of civilization or a smaller number at a higher stage of culture.” -Birth Control Review (Margaret Sanger's magazine 1917-40). “Religion, in its organized forms, is the arch enemy of the birth control movement throughout the world. That they are out of touch with current opinion and modern thought, seldom if ever occurs to them, as they wave their venerable superstitions in our faces.” -Margaret Sanger. “Safe, Legal and Rare” -Birth Control Review (Margaret Sanger's magazine 1917-40). “Before eugenists and others who are laboring for racial betterment can succeed, they must first clear the way for Birth Control. Like the advocates of Birth Control, the eugenists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Birth control of itself, by freeing the reproductive instinct from its present chains, will make a better race. Eugenics without birth control seems to us a house built upon the sands. It is at the mercy of the rising stream of the unfit.” -Birth Control Review (Margaret Sanger's magazine 1917-40). “Very early in childhood I associated large families with poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail ― and the Catholic Church.” -Margaret Sanger. “Woman must have her freedom ― the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she shall be a mother and how many children she will have.That right to decide imposes upon her the duty of clearing the way to knowledge by which she may make and carry out the decision.” -Margaret Sanger. “Birth Control properly established would go further to eliminate poverty, sickness, insanity, crime, with all that these scourges imply than any other remedy proposed.” -Birth Control Review (Margaret Sanger's magazine 1917-40).
"--the inferior races"----Yikes!! On and on---------"before eugenists and others who are laboring for racial betterment can succeed--Yikes again.
