We need to talk about Margaret Sanger. For the 11 years that I’ve been involved with Planned Parenthood, founded by Sanger, her legacy on race has been debated.
Sanger, a nurse, opened the nation’s first birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in 1916, and dedicated her life to promoting birth control to improve women’s lives.
But was she, or was she not, racist? It’s a question that we’ve tried to avoid, but we no longer can. We must reckon with it.