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Ad for "Woman and the New Race" by Margaret Sanger in Science and Invention for January, 1922, with a photo of Margaret and her two sons.
Ad for "Woman and the New Race."

Margaret Sanger publishes Woman and the New Race.

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Ad for "Woman and the New Race."

Sanger, one of the founders of Planned Parenthood, believes in birth control as a form of eugenics. She sees it as a means of controlling unwanted pregnancies and changing the composition of who gives birth within a population. This book focuses on the use of contraception to rid the human race of "undesirable traits."