Gates Sr. sat on the national board of Planned Parenthood, a neo-progressive organization founded in 1916 by the racist eugenicist Margaret Sanger to promote birth control and sterilization and to purge “human waste”58 and “create a race of thoroughbreds.”59 Sanger said she hoped to purify the gene pool by “eliminating the unfit” persons with disabilities—preventing such persons from reproducing60 by surgical sterilization or other means.
Margaret Sanger was a central figure in the unlawful medical sterilization of Americans in order to protect her racist and elitist viewpoint that was the predecessor to Planned Parenthood. She is a disgrace to the history of our country and to humanity.
