From a pro-choice author who interviewed clinic workers for a book she wrote:
“Many of the staff [at the abortion clinic] moreover, were aware of the family planning establishment’s historic ties to the eugenics movement. As Bernice, a black counselor put it: “Margaret Sanger is the big hero around here, but she said some outrageously racist things.”
Carole Joffe The Regulation of Sexuality: Experiences of Family-Planning Workers (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986) 85
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