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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.]]

'''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 Angry White Female: Margaret Sanger's Race of Thoroughbreds]</ref>

'''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 Angry White Female: Margaret Sanger's Race of Thoroughbreds]</ref>

==Birth control activism==

==Birth control activism==

Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, in October [[1916]] in [[Brooklyn]], New York. It was raided by the police, and shut down. Sanger was sentenced to 30 days imprisonment for distributing contraceptives, which was illegal in the United States at that time.

Margaret Sanger opened and illegally operated the first birth control clinic in the United States, in October [[1916]] in [[Brooklyn]], New York. It was raided by the police, and shut down. Sanger was sentenced to 30 days imprisonment for distributing contraceptives, which was illegal in the United States at that time.

==Statements by Margaret Sanger==

==Statements by Margaret Sanger==