Planned Parenthood to remove Margaret Sanger's name from center over 'racist legacy'
By J. Edward Moreno - 07/21/20 04:46 PM EDT
Planned Parenthood of Greater New York (PPGNY) announced Tuesday that it will remove the name of Margaret Sanger, who founded the national organization, because of her racist legacy and her connections to the eugenics movement.
Planned Parenthood's Manhattan Margaret Sanger Health Center will be renamed, and city officials are also working to rename the nearby “Margaret Sanger Square.†The organization said the new name would be announced soon.
Sanger, who was a nurse, established the first birth control clinic in the U.S., which would eventually become the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
The PPGNY said the decision came out of "a public commitment to reckon with its founder’s harmful connections to the eugenics movement."
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