...Born in Corning, New York, Sanger spent more than 30 years in Arizona and died in Tucson in 1966, a registered Republican. She even held meetings of the Republican Women’s Club in her Tucson home...
...In 1937, Sanger teamed with Peggy Goldwater, the wife of Arizona’s legendary politician, Barry Goldwater, to open Phoenix’s first birth control clinic. Later, as a U.S. senator, Barry became a champion for women’s reproductive rights.
In 1995, Planned Parenthood named a prestigious award after Goldwater and it has been given annually to a courageous state or federal Republican public policy maker. Goldwater himself was cited in Phoenix in 1997 when Planned Parenthood held its annual meeting there. I had the honor of presenting the award to his second wife, Susan (Peggy had died in 1985) and his daughter, Joanne, as he was too ill then to attend in person...