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Originally Posted by lagtight
Both Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi have been proud recipients of the Margaret Sanger Award.
OK, fair enough. I think I've heard this before but forgotten about it. I won't bother with a "no true leftist," mostly because that wasn't really the point.
The point is really that no one valorizes Sanger's support for eugenics, or her tolerance (at minimum) for working with racists to pursue her goals. People don't support Planned Parenthood because they think she's a hero for those things. They do think abortion rights are a really important accomplishment. This is why I said it's mostly off topic: it's almost always just an obnoxious attempt to associate support for abortion rights with support for eugenics, and the accusation is nonsense.
On the other hand, if you want to criticize Planned Parenthood for the use of Sanger's name on that award as doing too much to white-wash her actual history then I won't object too much to that. I think that it's a reasonable complaint up to that point. But I do disagree with interpreting the comments you quoted from Clinton as support for Sanger's odious views, because it's not a reasonable reading at all.
The other point was just that I meant people I know or have interacted with. I've heard plenty of people voice support for Planned Parenthood but pretty much never hear about Sanger except from people that want to disingenuously equate support for abortion rights with support for eugenics.