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Margaret Sanger
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Who was Margaret Sanger?
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She was a 20th-century birth control activist who founded the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood. She is a central figure in debates over reproductive ethics and eugenics.
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Sanger's work revolutionized social views on contraception, but her associations with the eugenics movement remain a point of intense historical and ethical scrutiny.
Source or basis: Planned Parenthood; NYU Sanger Papers Project
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