07-21-2020, 11:34 AM
Planned Parenthood in N.Y. Disavows Margaret Sanger Over Eugenics
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York will remove the name of Margaret Sanger, a founder of the national organization, from its Manhattan health clinic because of her “harmful connections to the eugenics movement,†the group said on Tuesday.
Ms. Sanger, a public health nurse who opened the first birth control clinic in the United States in Brooklyn in 1916, has long been lauded as a feminist icon and reproductive-rights pioneer.
But her legacy also includes supporting eugenics, a discredited belief in improving the human race through selective breeding, often targeted at poor people, those with disabilities, immigrants and people of color.
“The removal of Margaret Sangerâ€s name from our building is both a necessary and overdue step to reckon with our legacy and acknowledge Planned Parenthoodâ€s contributions to historical reproductive harm within communities of color,†Karen Seltzer, the chair of the New York affiliateâ€s board, said in a statement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/nyreg...2pwjypESKk
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York will remove the name of Margaret Sanger, a founder of the national organization, from its Manhattan health clinic because of her “harmful connections to the eugenics movement,†the group said on Tuesday.
Ms. Sanger, a public health nurse who opened the first birth control clinic in the United States in Brooklyn in 1916, has long been lauded as a feminist icon and reproductive-rights pioneer.
But her legacy also includes supporting eugenics, a discredited belief in improving the human race through selective breeding, often targeted at poor people, those with disabilities, immigrants and people of color.
“The removal of Margaret Sangerâ€s name from our building is both a necessary and overdue step to reckon with our legacy and acknowledge Planned Parenthoodâ€s contributions to historical reproductive harm within communities of color,†Karen Seltzer, the chair of the New York affiliateâ€s board, said in a statement.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/nyreg...2pwjypESKk