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Providing another source showing that Sanger's modern day imporance (infamy) is in the context of abortion
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[[Image:Sanger2.jpg|thumb|right|Margaret Sanger and her two sons.]]
 
[[Image:Sanger2.jpg|thumb|right|Margaret Sanger and her two sons.]]
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'''Margaret Sanger''' (born: September 14, 1879; died: September 6, 1966) was an [[United States of America|American]] [[birth control]] and [[eugenics]] activist. She coined the term "birth control" and founded the [[American Birth Control League]] (which merged with the [[National Birth Control League]] to become what is now [[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 [[African American]]s), 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>
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'''Margaret Sanger''' (born: September 14, 1879; died: September 6, 1966) founded what became [[Planned Parenthood]]<ref>{{hnb|Peterson|2007}}, [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 campained for eugenic controls to enforce what she called "race hygeine" (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>
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==Birth control activism==
 
==Birth control activism==

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