Exclusive – Margaret Sanger and Euthanasia

On the subject of abortion few figures loom as large as Margaret Sanger. Born Margaret Louise Higgins in 1879 to a large provincial family in Corning, New York, she rose to prominence by campaigning for greater access to birth control for women. However, beneath the surface of what many in the day already regarded as her controversial activities lay an even darker side that can be summed up by two words. Euthanasia and… Eugenics.