Wasn't this story in the NYT? Margaret Sanger was a Hitler-Class monster, and Planned Parenthood should be prosecuted. I'm pro-choice, but this is way over the line.
Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
Hate to agree in part, but I must. Sanger was an important individual who did some great things for women, but her views on many other things were questionable, to say the least. Her goal to give women more choice over their bodies and when to have children, is laudable.
I don't agree that she was a Hitler-class monster. She denounced the Nazis and their eugenics program. She helped to begin women's clinics in black neighborhoods. Neither negates her questionable stances on several issues. No person of this stature will ever stand up to scrutiny. One of her oft-used quotes is about not wanting it to get out that their healthcare efforts in the community were in any way a form of exterminating the black race. It's a quote that has been misused down through the years. She did not want the community to think they were trying to mimic what was happening in the Jim Crow South at the time, with sterilization efforts, etc.