Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood. Sanger wrote in 1921 that the question of sterilizing the disabled was “the most urgent problem today.”70 In one of her speeches, she suggested the sterilization or quarantining of some “fifteen or twenty millions of our population,” who would—she put it rather gently—“be organized into soldiers of defense—defending the unborn against their own disabilities.”71 She declared birth control “nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit [and] of preventing the birth of defectives.”72 For her work, Sanger was
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