Margaret Sanger was born Margaret Louise Higgins in 1879 in Corning ... coined the term eugenics in 1883 as “the science of improvement of the human race germ plasm through better breeding.” In the ...

Margaret Sanger, a pioneering advocate for women ... of birth control to improve the genetic composition of the human race—a view that has been widely criticized for its ethical implications.

Margaret Sanger witnessed unwanted pregnancies -- and desperate abortion attempts -- when she worked as a nurse among New York's poorest women. Though they came from different worlds, the two ...