Margaret Sanger: The Other Side of the Story

Editor's note: Earlier this month, I posted a piece about the astonishing turn of phrase uttered by Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a recent interview. Justice Ginsburg stated flatly that reducing the birthrate among certain populations had been a motivating rationale for early proponents of legalized abortion. Carl Cannon weighed in on July 22 with a historically based article showing that eugenics did indeed play a pivotal role in the thinking of early birth-control advocates, including Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. Walter Shapiro of our staff then suggested that we solicit a different ...

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