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Whereas I have always had the understanding that Margaret Sanger was the pioneer of birth control with complete intentions to better the life of women, some people appear to have other views. There is the belief that Sanger was in favor of eugenics; the idea of breeding selectively with hopes to improve the human species. Some believe her Planned Parenthood organization was put in play to restrict certain races and classes within society from reproducing. Margaret Sanger is accused of having the desire to control reproduction by introducing birth control. Multiple people are considered to be "unfit" to reproduce, or at least less fit than others to have children. By trying to have control of who can and cannot reproduce, sometimes it seemed that abortions or birth control was almost forced upon people to make them unable to procreate. Having any intentions of trying to contain "inferior" people is completely ridiculous in my opinion. Because this weeding out occurred as a possibility, obviously controversy has tagged along with it. In reality, I don't believe Margaret Sanger was trying to eliminate other races but rather give women liberation. She was trying to help women and give them sexual freedom.
I absolutely agree with you that Margaret Sanger was trying to help women in their quest to gain sexual freedom. I personally think her involvement with eugenics arose from her true desire to give women the power to control their own reproductive destinies. As Sanger was one of the pioneers of the birth control movement, I think that she was willing to support almost anything that resembled reproductive power for women. When new political or societal changes are in the process of occurring, many different theories and ideals are put forth, and it takes a while for these theories to evolve into what we look back and know them to be. Sanger believed that eugenics was a tactic which, as you said, "give[s] women liberation." As stated by Alex Sanger, "She stated that she shared the goal of the “elimination of the unfit,” but by mostly voluntary means. She asserted that a woman is the best judge of whether and when to bring a child into the world" (p.214). Sanger believed in birth control and reproductive choice for women, not in controlling who could and could not choose to reproduce.
I can totally agree with your idea as well. Birth control would be hard for any women and the idea that Margaret Sanger used birth controls was to not having too many babies. Margaret had a desire for eugenics to have babies that she was actually planned to be a mom and breed babies who can develop human species. She also tried to show that women are free to control their sexual reproductions and because of that, she was also involved in the birth control movement. Margaret thinks the choice of doing birth control is even women's choice to choose who could and could not choose to reproduce.