......... She (Ms Sanger) also wanted to specifically target minority women to prevent them from procreating because she felt they were diluting the gene pool. Later in life she loosened her position on abortion and felt it was sometimes justified.
Ms. Sanger targeted poor women with serial pregnancies that were literally killing them. Wealthy women has access to the diaphragms and spermicides through their private doctors. In the cities most poor women were 1st generation immigrant women whose families spoke broken English and worked at very low paying jobs if they could find work at all. In the rural areas the women she reached out to were poor farmers wives many of whom were Black. When Ms Sanger was part of the eugenics movement the term "race" meant the human race and it was the "human race" the the eugenics movement sought to improve. Race did not mean minorities of any kind. There are a few passages in her writings that make this clear. Here are two. If you want further confirmation that "race" meant "human race" I'd be happy to post them for you
"Some method must be devised to eliminate the degenerate and the defective; for these act constantly to impede progress and ever increasingly drag down the human race."
"In addition to its salutary effect on the future germ plasm of the human race, Birth Control will be an effective force in the solution of the problem of the social evil, and in the control of venereal diseases."
Ms Sanger was not a racist. From Wikipedia: "
Sanger worked with
African American leaders and professionals who saw a need for birth control in their communities. In 1929,
James H. Hubert, a black social worker and the leader of New York's
Urban League, asked Sanger to open a clinic in
Harlem.
[73] Sanger secured funding from the
Julius Rosenwald Fund and opened the clinic, staffed with black doctors, in 1930. The clinic was directed by a 15-member advisory board consisting of black doctors, nurses, clergy, journalists, and social workers. The clinic was publicized in the African-American press as well as in black churches, and it received the approval of
W. E. B. Du Bois, the co-founder of the
NAACP and the editor of its magazine,
The Crisis.[74][75][76][77] Sanger did not tolerate
bigotry among her staff, nor would she tolerate any refusal to work within interracial projects.
[78] Sanger's work with minorities earned praise from
Coretta and
Martin Luther King Jr.; when he was not able to attend his
Margaret Sanger award ceremony, in May 1966, Mrs. King read her husband's acceptance speech that praised Sanger, but first said her own words: "Because of [Sanger's] dedication, her deep convictions, and for her suffering for what she believed in, I would like to say that I am proud to be a woman tonight."
[79]
From 1939 to 1942, Sanger was an honorary delegate of the Birth Control Federation of America, which included a supervisory role—alongside
Mary Lasker and
Clarence Gamble—in the
Negro Project, an effort to deliver information about birth control to poor black people.
[80] Sanger advised Dr. Gamble on the utility of hiring a black physician for the Negro Project. She also advised him on the importance of reaching out to black ministers, writing"
Let me state it again: Sanger was not ever a racist