While it is understandable that Planned Parenthood would be protective of their founder's reputation, it cannot ignore the fact that Sanger edited the Birth Control review from its inception until 1929. Under her leadership, the magazine featured articles that embraced the eugenicist position. If Sanger were as anti-eugenics as Planned Parenthood says she was, she would not have printed as many articles sympathetic to eugenics as she did.
How Planned Parenthood Duped America
See also:
The Repackaging of Margaret Sanger - Wall Street Journal, May 5,1997
FYI, she may have left as editor in 1929, but she continued to write for the Birth Control Review, her "Plan for Peace" was published in the BCR in 1932. She also served as President of PP from 1952-1959 and continued to work with them until 1962. And this little tidbit about her membership in the American Eugenic Society might interest you as well...
Sanger, Margaret Higgins (Slee); Member 1930, 1956; (Member, Third International Congress of Eugenics, New York 1932)She was a dangerous woman.Personal: editor, Birth Control Review 1918; 17 West 16th St., New York City 1932; Birth Control Federation of America (Public Information Dept., Chmn. 1939; Honorary Chairman 1939, 1940; Planned Parenthood of America; International Planned Parenthood Federation (Founder, 1953; President Emeritus 1961-62; Governing Body 1961-62; Medical Committee 1961-62); (see Margaret Sanger. Elsah Droghin; Grand Illusions. George Grant)
Quotes: A Doctor in 1932 According to Members List 3rd Int. Eug Congress 1932 "263. Dr. Margaret Sanger, 17 West 16th St., New York, N.Y. 1932" A Decade of Progress in Eugenics, Baltimore 1934, Appendix, p. 518 Eugenicist by 1919 "Eugenics without Birth Control ... cannot stand against the furious winds of economic pressure ... Before eugenicists and others who are laboring for racial betterment can succeed, they must first clear the way for birth control. Like the advocates for birth control, the eugenicists, for instance, are seeking to assist the race toward the elimination of the unfit. Both are seeking a single end but they lay emphasis upon different methods ... eugenicists imply or insist that a woman's first duty is to the state; we contend that her duty to herself is her first duty to the state." Margaret Sanger in "Birth Control and Racial Betterment" Birth Control Review Feb. 1919 p. 11 Source: Sanger list 1930; EQ 1956; Birth Control Review 1918; Birth Control Review, Feb/March 1939; Annual Report, International Planned Parenthood Federation 1959-61
Members of the American Eugenics Society Alphabetical List: P-S