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The '''American Birth Control League''' (ABCL) was an organization founded in 1921 by [[Margaret Sanger]] to promote the ideas of birth control.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ru3qBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA233 Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia]</ref>
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The '''American Birth Control League''' (ABCL) was an organization founded in 1921 by [[Margaret Sanger]] to promote the ideas of birth control.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ru3qBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA233 Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia]</ref>  The League consisted of other similar organizations, such as the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (BCCRB) and the Clinical Research Bureau (CRB).<ref>[https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/aboutms/organization_bccrb.php Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau]</ref>
  
 
==Early leaders==
 
==Early leaders==
 
Among the 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>
 
Among the 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>
  
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Several notable people were in leadership positions of the ABCL, many of who were staunch believers in eugenics, such as C. C. Little, Board of Directors for the ABCL<ref>[https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/aboutms/organization_abcl.php American Birth Control League]</ref> and President of the American Eugenics Society.<ref>[https://www.michigandaily.com/section/viewpoints/op-ed-cc-little-naming-buildings-eugenics Op-Ed: Questioning C.C. Little's legacy]</ref>
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Several notable people were in leadership positions of the ABCL, many of who were staunch believers in eugenics, such as C. C. Little, Board of Directors for the ABCL<ref>[https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/aboutms/organization_abcl.php American Birth Control League]</ref> and President of the American Eugenics Society;<ref>[https://www.michigandaily.com/section/viewpoints/op-ed-cc-little-naming-buildings-eugenics Op-Ed: Questioning C.C. Little's legacy]</ref> Adolf Meyer, Advisory Board of the ABCL<ref>[https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/aboutms/organization_abcl.php American Birth Control League]</ref> and member of the Eugenic American Breeders Association;<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Keeping_America_Sane/wyVzDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA113 Keeping America Sane - Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880–1940]</ref> Harry H. Laughlin, Board of Directors for the ABCL<ref>[http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/abortion_eugenics/star-tribune_eugenics.html Eugenics part of Sanger legacy]</ref> and Director of the Eugenics Record Office; Edward Murray East, Advisory Board of the ABCL<ref>[https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/aboutms/organization_bccrb.php Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau]</ref> and author of the 1927 eugenic work ''Heredity and Human Affairs''; Raymond Pearl, Advisory Board of the ABCL<ref>[https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/aboutms/organization_abcl.php American Birth Control League]</ref> - Pearl later repudiated his earlier eugenic views.<ref>Note: Pearl's eugenic views overlapped during his time as an ABCL advisor.</ref><ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Raymond-Pearl Raymond Pearl]</ref>
  
 
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Latest revision as of 00:58, January 4, 2020

The American Birth Control League (ABCL) was an organization founded in 1921 by Margaret Sanger to promote the ideas of birth control.[1] The League consisted of other similar organizations, such as the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (BCCRB) and the Clinical Research Bureau (CRB).[2]

Early leaders

Among the prominent early leaders of the ABCL were Katharine Hepburn, Lothrop Stoddard, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Sanger herself.[3] Stoddard, a prominent leader among eugenists, was a close personal friend of Sanger.[4][5][6]

Several notable people were in leadership positions of the ABCL, many of who were staunch believers in eugenics, such as C. C. Little, Board of Directors for the ABCL[7] and President of the American Eugenics Society;[8] Adolf Meyer, Advisory Board of the ABCL[9] and member of the Eugenic American Breeders Association;[10] Harry H. Laughlin, Board of Directors for the ABCL[11] and Director of the Eugenics Record Office; Edward Murray East, Advisory Board of the ABCL[12] and author of the 1927 eugenic work Heredity and Human Affairs; Raymond Pearl, Advisory Board of the ABCL[13] - Pearl later repudiated his earlier eugenic views.[14][15]

References

  1. ↑ Social Issues in America: An Encyclopedia
  2. ↑ Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau
  3. ↑ American Birth Control League
  4. ↑ A Patriot's History of the Modern World, Vol. I: From America's Exceptional Ascent to the Atomic Bomb: 1898-1945
  5. ↑ The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic
  6. ↑ What Ben Carson Knows about Planned Parenthood, National Review
  7. ↑ American Birth Control League
  8. ↑ Op-Ed: Questioning C.C. Little's legacy
  9. ↑ American Birth Control League
  10. ↑ Keeping America Sane - Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880–1940
  11. ↑ Eugenics part of Sanger legacy
  12. ↑ Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau
  13. ↑ American Birth Control League
  14. ↑ Note: Pearl's eugenic views overlapped during his time as an ABCL advisor.
  15. ↑ Raymond Pearl
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