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Actually, while I have no idea which side of the political aisle Ms. Sanger's politics fall to, her reasonings for spreading information about and the availability of birth control (her work being what is often credited as the "roots behind" PP) wasn't anything kind or charitable. Her reasoning was purely based on eugenics. She (and many of her cohorts and coworkers) felt that the poor and "ethnics" (including "ethnic whites") were impurities whose reduction or removal would ultimately benefit society. That was her reasoning for her work in birth control - something PP basically never mentions when speaking of her. Knowing this, I find it hard to believe she was liberal or as was more commonly used in her times "progressive". That reasoning doesn't even strike me as the least bit kind or charitable.