Margaret Sanger Was Not a Racist | RealClearPolitics
The president of Planned Parenthood, Alexis McGill Johnson, last week announced in a New York Times op-ed a change in the organization’s treatment of its founder, the pioneering birth control advocate Margaret Sanger. “We have defended Sanger as a protector of bodily autonomy and self-determination, while excusing her association with white supremacist groups and eugenics as an unfortunate ‘product of her time,’” wrote Johnson, but now, “[w]e will no longer make excuses or apologize for Margaret Sanger’s actions.” Johnson stops just short of labeling Sanger a racist, saying it...
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