margaret sanger statue

Remove statues of Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood founder tied to eugenics and racism How a woman who advocated for the selective breeding of her fellow citizens came to be memorialized with those who built a country is hard to understand.Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, must join that list. In promoting birth control, she advanced a controversial "Negro Project," wrote in her autobiography about speaking to a Ku Klux Klan group and advocated for a eugenics approach to breeding for “the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extinction, of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.”