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Line 18: + + − − 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> Stoddard, a prominent leader among eugenists, was a close personal friend of Sanger.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=v4VlUvVKOQ0C&pg=PT170 A Patriot's History of the Modern World, Vol. I: From America's Exceptional Ascent to the Atomic Bomb: 1898-1945]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=NysSmD9t9o4C&pg=PA251 The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic]</ref><ref>[https://www.nationalreview.com/article/422557/what-ben-carson-knows-about-planned-parenthood-ian-tuttle What Ben Carson Knows about Planned Parenthood], [[National Review]]</ref>
→History: Stoddard, Hepburn, and Roosevelt belong on the ABCL article.
==History==
==History==
{{main|American Birth Control League}}
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>
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>
In 1934, the ABCL unanimously passed a resolution which called for the sterilization of "defectives".<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=ziW8EwMpto0C&dat=19340122&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Schenectady Gazette - Jan 22, 1934], page 7, bottom of column 1</ref>
In 1934, the ABCL unanimously passed a resolution which called for the sterilization of "defectives".<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=ziW8EwMpto0C&dat=19340122&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Schenectady Gazette - Jan 22, 1934], page 7, bottom of column 1</ref>