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Re Margaret Sanger: She was a product of her time, which is to say that one of the reasons she promoted birth control was as a means of keeping down the supposedly alarming numbers of non-Anglo-Saxon children being born to recent immigrants (see Teddy Roosevelt's notorious speech on "race suicide," encouraging native-born women to have tons more children to "right" the balance). On the other hand, she was also a passionate feminist who was outraged by the ignorance, woman/child abuse and grinding effects of poverty that she witnessed, and rightly thought one way to try and correct it was to free women from bearing a child a year for fifteen to twenty years. Speaking as the descendant of Italian great-grandparents who raised thirteen and seven children, respectively, in two-room tenements, at the end of the day I think she did far more good than harm.