You don’t know if a baby is “diseased” until it is in the womb. She said the sin is bringing a diseased baby into this world. Thus to NOT commit the sin, according to her belief system, would require the termination of that which is diseased, which of course can only exist and be known for sure after conception.
Sanger thought all kinds of people were ‘diseased’ and that they would produce diseased or feeble minded or otherwise inferior offspring. She advocated coerced or forced sterilization of certain people and even clandestine contraceptives if they could be developed (oral contraceptives had not yet been developed but people were working it).
But she never advocated abortion. Not in print (and she wrote prolifically), not is recorded or transcribed speeches. There is simply no evidence that she supported or advocated for abortion. Her main thing was to get contraception and contraceptive knowledge legal. Her eugenics beliefs (which were quite popular in her time) were a sideline to that.
Sanger thought all kinds of people were ‘diseased’ and that they would produce diseased or feeble minded or otherwise inferior offspring. She advocated coerced or forced sterilization of certain people and even clandestine contraceptives if they could be developed (oral contraceptives had not yet been developed but people were working it).
But she never advocated abortion. Not in print (and she wrote prolifically), not is recorded or transcribed speeches. There is simply no evidence that she supported or advocated for abortion. Her main thing was to get contraception and contraceptive knowledge legal. Her eugenics beliefs (which were quite popular in her time) were a sideline to that.