In response to employee and supporters’ discomfort around the organization’s association with eugenicist and family planning pioneer Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood has announced that it will remove Sanger’s name from its Manhattan health clinic.\n
“The removal of Margaret Sanger’s name from our building is both a necessary and overdue step to reckon with our legacy and acknowledge Planned Parenthood’s contributions to historical reproductive harm within communities of color,” said Karen Seltzer, chair of the New York affiliate board in a statement. The organization also says it is talking with city leaders about renaming “Margaret Sanger Square,” what the space near the clinic on Bleeker Street has been called for over twenty years.
focused on the complaints of staffers at New York’s Planned Parenthood, Jezebel’s Esther Wang found that many people felt discomfort at the organization’s relationship with Sanger’s legacy. Attendees at a recent event for the organization complained about a speech given by the then-head of New York Planned Parenthood, Laura McQuade, praising Sanger.
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