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femmocrat

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13. A really good article about Margaret Sanger, for a balanced view:
Thu Oct 15, 2015, 06:44 PM
Oct 2015

This scholarly article shows how Sanger was influenced by the times in which she lived. It gives a balanced view of her shortcomings, but illustrates that she was also
forward-thinking. The author goes into the how and why of her racial biases which were common at that time, even espoused by Teddy Roosevelt!

Excerpt: ". . . since anti-choice fanatics seem utterly incapable of making an honest argument in support of their position that Black women should be forced into childbirth rather than permitted to make their own decisions about what to do with their bodies, they resort to lies, misinformation, and half-truths about Sanger and the organization she founded."

http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2015/08/20/false-narratives-margaret-sanger-used-shame-black-women/

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