Margaret sanger

• A new biography of Margaret Sanger fails to confront the Planned Parenthood founder's ideological commitment to eugenics and population control.
(LifeNews.com)
• Margaret Sanger: visionary or eugenicist? Jean H. Baker is a professor of history at Goucher College, in Baltimore. She is the author of the recently published "Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion." Readers may send her email at jean.
(LimaOhio.com)
• Margaret Sanger: visionary or eugenicist? Angela Franks is the author of "Margaret Sangers Eugenic Legacy: The Control of Female Fertility." Readers may send her email at franks.angela@gmail.com.
(LimaOhio.com)
• MARGARET SANGER: A Life of Passion. By Jean H. Baker. Hill and Wang. 349 pages. $35. Margaret Sanger, born in 1879 in Corning, N.Y., was the sixth of 11 children.
(The Post and Courier)
• Tucked in the back of The Bees Scene section (Jan. 13) was a glowing review of a book written about Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortions in the United States.
(Modesto Bee)
• CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Believe it or not, birth control once was a crime in America. At the start of the 20th century, nurse Margaret Sanger began crusading for the right of women to avoid endless, recurring pregnancies.
(Charleston Gazette)
• Margaret Sanger was a very unpleasant lady, someone who thought that black women, the mentally retarded and pretty much everyone else who wasnt lilly-white (no immigrants, either) and well-off needed to be sterilized.
(Philadelphia Daily News)
• Margaret Sanger, the controversial eugenicist— and onetime president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation — believed in socially engineering a better race of people.
(Colorado Springs Gazette)
• An excellent film, Choices of the Heart, was made some years ago about Margaret Sanger, generally considered the founder of Planned Parenthood. When shown on TV in 1995 the film was considered controversial.
(DAILY KOS)