I understand that abortion comes directly from the eugenics mindset. But Sanger herself, though a staunch eugenicist, never advocated abortion.
The woman and her movement is flawed enough without attributing views to her she did not espouse.
However, she did say this:
"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."
- The Woman Rebel, Volume I, Number 1. Reprinted in Woman and the New Race. New York: Brentanos Publishers, 1922.
"We are paying for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all."
- The Pivot of Civilization, 1922. Chapter on "The Cruelty of Charity," pages 116, 122, and 189. Swarthmore College Library edition.
"The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind."
- Margaret Sanger, quoted in Charles Valenza. "Was Margaret Sanger a Racist?" Family Planning Perspectives, January-February 1985, page 44.