![]() ![]() On Tuesday, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York (PPGNY) announced that it would be removing Sanger’s name from their Manhattan Health Center. ![]() Eugenics practices targeted the disabled, people of color, and poor people. In 1923, Sanger opened a new clinic staffed by female doctors which eventually became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.īut your history book may not have mentioned the darker side of Sanger, like her views on eugenics, a discredited belief in improving the human race through selective breeding. Her arrest and conviction led to a court ruling said that physicians could prescribe contraceptives to women for medical reasons. If Margaret Sanger sounds familiar, it’s because you might have encountered her in history class.Ī nurse and educator, Sanger opened in 1916 the first birth control clinic in the United States, which was illegal at the time. ![]()
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