Planned Parenthood & Margaret Sanger: Scorn Deserved
(Harris & Ewing/Library of Congress) Margaret Sanger is finally getting some of the brickbats she is due. Even the head of Planned Parenthood recently acknowledged that Sanger’s actions and associations were blatantly racist. But there is a pushback among some progressive that admits she may have been an outright eugenicist — but so many were in those days, don’t you know, as if that were an excuse. But at least she wasn’t an actual racist! That’s the take of RealClearPolitics. He waves off her embrace of eugenics (quoting historian Thomas C. Leonard) because it was “mainstream;...