"The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics."
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"The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda" (October 1921), p. 5.
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Margaret Sanger
Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, feminist, and eugenicist who opened the first birth control clinic in the United States and established organizations that evolved into the .
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