https://rewire.news/article/2015/08/20/false-narratives-margaret-sanger-used-shame-black-women/
Sanger was pro-birth control and anti-abortion. This may surprise you, considering that Planned Parenthood opponents frequently accuse Sanger of erecting abortion clinics in Black neighborhoods, a practice they claim the organization continues to this day.
But this is simply not true.
Sanger opposed abortion. She believed it to be a barbaric practice. In her own words, “[a]lthough abortion may be resorted to in order to save the life of the mother, the practice of it merely for limitation of offspring is dangerous and vicious.” Her views are, ironically, in keeping with the views of many of the anti-choicers who malign and distort her legacy.
However, their conviction that the right to be child-free was so absolute, that they did a 180, turned on a dime when the prospect of legalized abortion became a political possibility.
It illustrates how contraception paves the way for abortion. A woman's well-being and the weaturally coincide. Contraception sets up the woman and the child as adversaries, as if they were rivals for rights and status and well-being and care. Once you have the idea that you have a right to reliably sterile sex and erase the "rival", abortion is "necessary" to make it fail-safe.
Interestingly, Margaret Sanger's son Grant, and grandson Alexander, both were abortion advocates, seeing it as an extension (not a contradiction) of Margaret's values and goals.
A woman's well-being and the weaturally coincide.
A woman's well-being and the well-being of her child do not naturally conflict. They naturally coincide.