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[[Alan Guttmacher]], who was a President of Planned Parenthood from 1962 to 1974 and who was also former Vice-President of the American Eugenics Society,<ref>http://catholicwriter.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/what-is-roe-v-wade/</ref><ref>http://www.eugenics-watch.com/</ref>
[[Alan Guttmacher]], who was a President of Planned Parenthood from 1962 to 1974 and who was also former Vice-President of the American Eugenics Society,<ref>http://catholicwriter.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/what-is-roe-v-wade/</ref><ref>http://www.eugenics-watch.com/</ref>
stated: "We are merely walking down the path that Ms. Sanger has carved out for us." <ref>http://www.nationallifechain.org/PP.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.lifesite.net/waronfamily/Population_Control/Inherentracism.pdf</ref> Similarly, Faye Wattleton, who was the president of Planned Parenthood until 1992, stated that she was "proud" to be "walking in the footsteps" of Margaret Sanger.<ref>http://www.lifesite.net/waronfamily/Population_Control/Inherentracism.pdf</ref>
stated: "We are merely walking down the path that Ms. Sanger has carved out for us." <ref>http://www.nationallifechain.org/PP.pdf</ref><ref>http://www.lifesite.net/waronfamily/Population_Control/Inherentracism.pdf</ref> Similarly, Faye Wattleton, who was the president of Planned Parenthood until 1992, stated that she was "proud" to be "walking in the footsteps" of Margaret Sanger.<ref>http://www.lifesite.net/waronfamily/Population_Control/Inherentracism.pdf</ref>
==History==
The organization was originally founded as the '''American Birth Control League''' (ABCL) in 1921.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ru3qBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA233 Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia]</ref>
Among the more prominent early leaders of the ABCL were [[Katharine Hepburn]], [[Lothrop Stoddard]], [[Eleanor Roosevelt]], and Sanger herself.<ref name=abcl>[https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/aboutms/organization_abcl.php American Birth Control League]</ref>
It changed its name to Planned Parenthood in 1942.<ref name=abcl />
==Statements by founder Margaret Sanger==
==Statements by founder Margaret Sanger==