Aborting the Beggar

Margaret Sanger, Eugenicist

Today we consider Margaret Sanger to be the founder of Planned Parenthood and thus of the abortion movement. And in part, this is true—she did found Planned Parenthood, and her theories lay at the groundwork of the abortion industry in the United States. At the core of her life's work, however, Margaret Sanger really fought hardest for birth control, and she even tried to distance herself from abortion for most of her career. She was, in fact, one of the four people originally responsible for the development of Enovid, the first hormonal contraceptive pill.¹

To argue for the necessity of the birth control pill,...