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Sanger never was for abortion. Her entire career was spent advocating for legalizing birth control. As in condoms, diaphrams, spermicide and the pill.
Your wiki link only touches the surface on the debate, it does not provide any direct evidence. Of which I've seen btw, the letter in question. So too have I seen her bio where she talks about talking to the KKK she didn't want to but her whole life was dedicated to spreading the message of contraception to as many people as possible.)
Sanger also testified to Congress and Judges her fundamental belief that abused mothers create abused children. She was ahead of her time. Now we know for a fact that even our own epigenetics are influenced by generational trauma. That was the extent of her eugenics. She was exceedingly against the classist inequities that enabled rich white women to procure knowledge and means to birth control (and knowledge about sex) while the poor and minorities were denied this right.
Just look at her life, she was the 8th child of (was it 12 I can't remember,) and her mother was chronically pregnant, chronically ill and died at a young age (40s) of illness. While her father (who supposedly was a total jerk) lived on til his 80s, spry and healthy. Why do you think she is pro birth control then?
Ironically too btw, in the same Congressional hearings of which she testified about her belief that denying women reproductive control was abusive...that the people against it (some even Catholic Bishops...I can drop a name if you want although I'll have to go through my book again) were literally testifying in Congress about the need for white women to have "at least 4 children each" to save the European race.
It's a classic narcissist/propaganda move to accuse the opposing side of the thing you were actually doing. Which btw, it was the religious who appointed themselves "guardians of white culture" who were the most racist, throughout all the time that Sanger fought for the right to BC, and before that time, when the Comstock Act was originally passed.
BTW, all this is directly from a book I'm reading about the SCOTUS case Griswold V Connecticut. This is not a pro-choice book, but a legal text by a law professor on the history of the right to birth control in the US.
I highly suggest you read it.
https://www.amazon.com/Griswold-v-Connecticut-Constitutional-Landmark/dp/0700613781