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What's with the hysterical tone? Let's also get the eugenics, birth control, nationality and feminism all in the first sentence, then sort the rest into rough chron order
[[Image:Sanger2.jpg|thumb|right|Margaret Sanger and her two sons.]]
[[Image:Sanger2.jpg|thumb|right|Margaret Sanger and her two sons.]]
'''Margaret Sanger''' (born: September 14, 1879; died: September 6, 1966) founded what became [[Planned Parenthood]]<ref>[http://www.hopeclinic.com/AbortionHistory.htm Abortion History]</ref> (then the ''American Birth Control League''). She propagandized for [[eugenics]] and coined the term "[[birth control]]". In particular, she campaigned for eugenic controls to enforce what she called "race hygiene" (a plan to sterilize and marginalize American immigrant Slavs, Italians, Jews, and blacks), and was a member of the [[American Eugenics Society]] and the [[English Eugenics Society]].<ref>http://www.all.org/abac/contents.txt</ref><ref>http://www.lifeadvocate.org/1_98/feature.htm</ref><ref>http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/sexuality/se0057.html</ref>
'''Margaret Sanger''' (born: September 14, 1879; died: September 6, 1966) was an [[United States of America|American]] [[birth control]], [[eugenics]], and [[feminism|feminist]] activist. She coined the term "birth control" and founded the [[American Birth Control League]] (which was the foundation for modern-day [[Planned Parenthood]]). She also campained for eugenic controls to enforce what she called "race hygiene" (a plan to sterilize and marginalize American immigrant Slavs, Italians, Jews, and blacks), and was a member of the [[American Eugenics Society]] and the [[English Eugenics Society]].<ref>http://www.all.org/abac/contents.txt</ref><ref>http://www.lifeadvocate.org/1_98/feature.htm</ref><ref>http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/sexuality/se0057.html</ref>
==Birth control activism==
==Birth control activism==