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Margaret Sanger on Abortion in Her Own Words

November 11, 2018
12,852 words (~64 minutes) Tags: history birth control contraception abortion third-person

Margaret Sanger, pioneer of birth control in the United States and founder of the organizations that became Planned Parenthood, felt that abortion is “taking life,” excluded abortion from her birth control movement, and had the explicit goal of ending the use of abortion as a method of family limitation. This causes her legacy to conflict with the false dichotomy surrounding abortion today, both with the so-called “pro-life” movement that vilifies her and with the so-called “pro-choice” movement that exalts her.

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My name is Joshua Born. I am an M.S.-level statistician. I would have liked to have been a professional scholar, but for many years I worked a previous career as a software developer, tried out different things, etc. etc., and life passed me by.

This blog is an outlet for me to explore my own interests in my personal time, including scholarly interests. Most of my empirical research interests are around birth control and abortion. I am also interested in critical thinking in the analysis and interpretation of empirical evidence.