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It's all too easy to judge persons and events of the past through the prism of modern values and sensibilities. Margaret Sanger was a product of the times into which she was born, and her views on race and eugenics were held by a good many liberal intellectuals in the early 20th century. That doesn't detract from Ms. Sanger's courageous work of opening clinics in slum neighborhoods and providing birth-control information to thousands of poor immigrant women in direct violation of the laws of the day. Margaret Sanger firmly believed in the right of women to control their fertility at a time when, to many Americans (and not just Roman Catholics), the very idea of birth control was unnatural and against God. For that, she deserves eternal praise and celebration. After all, Henry Ford was a rabid anti-Semite. Does that mean Fords are bad cars?
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Posted by: Scot Penslar
Sat Apr 25, 2009 8:05 PM
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