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...Sanger has also been the subject of at least two television movies within the past few years: HBO's Woman of Valor, which starred Demi Moore, and Lifetime's Crusader: The Margaret Sanger Story, which starred Dana Delany. Life magazine in 1991 named Sanger one of the "100 Most Important Americans of the Century" (apparently operating on the belief that the succeeding nine years would offer no further examples of importance). Whenever the media takes notice of Sanger, she is lionized as the ultimate champion of women's rights, as was the case in A Will of Their Own. This...
...Margaret Sanger was racist...
...example, Sanger's Birth Control Federation of America (which in 1942 changed its name to Planned Parenthood) designed a "Negro Project." The idea was to get Negroes to use birth control. The project proposal said, "The mass of Negroes, particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disastrously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit, and least able to rear children properly." The project decided to hire "coloured ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities" to travel and promote birth...
...Sanger wrote to Clarence Gamble, the head of the project, "The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members...
...Sanger's explicitly stated aims for the American Birth Control League (another predecessor of Planned Parenthood) was "racial progress." She used her magazine Birth Control Review to promote White Supremacy and Nazistyle eugenics. She once wrote of her goal of creating a "race of thoroughbreds" by encouraging "more children from the fit, and less from the unfit." In 1932, the magazine outlined Sanger's "Plan for Peace," which called for coerced sterilization, mandatory segregation and rehabilitative concentration camps for all "dysgenic stocks." In 1933, the magazine even published an article by Ernst Rudin, Hitler's director of genetic sterilization...