{{Infobox person
| name = Margaret Sanger Slee
| image = Margaret Sanger and Charles V. Drysdale cph.3b18067.jpg
| caption = Sanger standing with Charles Vickery Drysdale
| birth_place = Corning, New York
| death_date = September 6, 1966
| death_place = [[Tucson]], Arizona<ref name=obit>[https://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0914.html Margaret Sanger Is Dead at 82; Led Campaign for Birth Control]</ref>
| nationality = American
| spouse = William Sanger, <br /> James Noah H. Slee<ref name=obit />
| religion =
}}
'''Margaret Sanger''' (September 14, 1879 - – September 6, 1966) was an American [[feminist]], and [[eugenics]] activist and [[racist]], who founded the [[American Birth Control League]], which eventually became [[Planned Parenthood]] She ; she retired from the organization in 1940. She is commonly criticized for her legacy of antiblack racism.
Her main success was in bringing discussions of [[Birth Controlbirth 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.
As is common with [[Progressivism|progressivesprogressive]]s, Sanger believed that [[big government]] must have a role.<ref name=biggovernment>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2194&dat=19641116&id=VL0yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NO0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1088,175817 Founder pessimistic about birth control]</ref>
==Early life and family==
* [[Jane Addams]]
* [[Florence Kelley]]
* [[Birth control and racism]]
==References==
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