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To be fair to Sanger, she was actually opposed to abortion. She viewed it as killing. She did support birth control and her organization did become what is today PP. She was pro-birth control primarily for population control reasons, and her attitudes towards blacks are well documented. She even gave a famous speech to a Klan meeting in the 20’s. Her chief genius, from a marketing standpoint, was to encourage women to drop the idea of sex as procreation (she wrote articles and columns on this), and think of it in terms of recreation, and birth-control as a means to freedom. Although modern progressives want to believe their movement has always been on the side of blacks, this is not history. Sadly, in America, blacks have been the social and legal targets of many progressive ideas (prohibition of drugs and alcohol, gun control, population control, minimum wage, organized labor, welfare, aid to dependent children). You can say black women "choose’ abortion (after being sold a bill of goods about sex and freedom), you can say the real variable is poverty (which correlates with race in America, and after pursuing policies that perpetuate poverty, instead of helping people out of it), and you can claim that nobody is acting out of racist motives, but the disparate results are there for all to see. If you asked the KKK to plan the location of abortion clinics, would they locate them otherwise than they are today?