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→Margaret Sanger, eugenics and racism
[[Margaret Sanger]] was an American [[feminist]] and [[eugenics]] activist who founded the [[American Birth Control League]]. She retired from the organization in 1940 and it eventually became [[Planned Parenthood]]. Her main success was in bringing discussions of [[Birth Control]] into the public arena. She blamed large families for all of the ills of society,<ref name=moralityandbirthcontrol>[https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webedition/app/documents/show.php?sangerDoc=213391.xml MORALITY AND BIRTH CONTROL]</ref> and argued that a major reason to promote birth control was to stop abortions.<ref>[https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webedition/app/documents/show.php?sangerDoc=232534.xml BIRTH CONTROL OR ABORTION?],</ref> She was vigorously denounced by the Catholic Church because of her position on birth control.
[[Margaret Sanger]] was an American [[feminist]] and [[eugenics]] activist who founded the [[American Birth Control League]]. She retired from the organization in 1940 and it eventually became [[Planned Parenthood]]. Her main success was in bringing discussions of [[Birth Control]] into the public arena. She blamed large families for all of the ills of society,<ref name=moralityandbirthcontrol>[https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webedition/app/documents/show.php?sangerDoc=213391.xml MORALITY AND BIRTH CONTROL]</ref> and argued that a major reason to promote birth control was to stop abortions.<ref>[https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webedition/app/documents/show.php?sangerDoc=232534.xml BIRTH CONTROL OR ABORTION?],</ref> She was vigorously denounced by the Catholic Church because of her position on birth control.
====Harlem clinic====
Working with the Urban League in 1929, Sanger opened up the first birth control clinic in Harlem, New York.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ELIJD2ErMgwC&pg=PA298 Women and Health in America: Historical Readings]</ref> That same year, Sanger established the ''National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control'' as a lobbying organization, in order to influence the creation and amendment of laws pertaining to abortion and birth control.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=S60656aS4PAC&pg=PA55 Life, Death and the Law: Law and Christian Morals in England and the United States]</ref> It was closed in 1937, only six months after the court case ''United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries''.<ref>[http://www.jstor.org/stable/2745054?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Lobbying for Birth Control]</ref>
===Minority Communities and Planned Parenthood ===
===Minority Communities and Planned Parenthood ===