NEW YORK, May 26, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – A Planned Parenthood officer has called for the removal of the Margaret Sanger Square sign from a street in New York City during a community board meeting. Sanger was the eugenicist founder of Planned Parenthood.
According to Patch, the movement to remove Sanger’s name from the square was introduced by Merle McGee, the Chief Equity and Engagement Officer of Planned Parenthood New York.
“We need to acknowledge, like many institutions, that we have to reckon with our history and our founder’s legacy,” McGee said during the community board meeting. “Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was a champion for birth control, which expanded bodily autonomy for many, including women of color, but Sanger also embraced eugenics, which was an ableist and racist philosophy to advance the birth control campaign.”
This move comes after Planned Parenthood of Greater New York determined to remove Sanger’s name from a Manhattan abortion facility because of her “harmful connections to the eugenics movement.”
Sanger has long been known to have supported eugenics and racism. She once said, “We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population …” Recently, her racist
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