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> So was Planned Parenthood. No it wasn't: https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/14/432080520/fact-check-was-planned-parenthood-started-to-contr
by pstuart 6y ago
> So was Planned Parenthood.
No it wasn't:
https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/14/432080520/fact-check-was-planned-parenthood-started-to-control-the-black-population https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/08/14/43208...
- zdragnar 6y agoEven planned parenthood has been disavowing her: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/nyregion/planned-parenthood-margaret-sanger-eugenics.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/nyregion/planned-parentho... In her speech the morality of birth control, she openly advocated for preventing undesirables (todays' deplorables) from procreating. Edit: NPR's cherry-picking nice sounding quotes doesn't describe the totality of the woman, her views or the organization- then, or now.
- pstuart 6y agoBut to frame it as the reason the organization was created is fallacious.