Racism was pretty common back then. It was a much more conservative society. But that's not science, that's the changing values in America.
Margaret Sanger comes to mind.
A "Magic Pill"
Tired of waiting for science or industry to turn its attention to the problem, Margaret Sanger set out on a mission. She sought someone to realize her vision of a contraceptive pill as easy to take as an aspirin. She wanted a pill that could provide women with cheap, safe, effective and female-controlled contraception. Her search ended in 1951 when she met Gregory Pincus, a medical expert in human reproduction who was willing to take on the project. Soon after, she found a sponsor for the research: International Harvester heiress Katharine McCormick. Their collaboration would lead to the FDA approval of Enovid, the first oral contraceptive, in 1960. With the advent of the Pill, Sanger accomplished her life-long goal of bringing safe and effective contraception to the masses.
Margaret Sanger devoted her life to legalizing birth control and making it universally available for women.
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International Harvester heiress Katharine McCormick.
Throughout the 1920s, McCormick worked with Sanger on birth control issues. McCormick smuggled more than 1,000
diaphragms from Europe to
New York City to Sanger's Clinical Research Bureau.
[10] She scheduled meetings with major European diaphragm manufacturers in cities such as Rome and Paris, and used her language skills and biology background to pose as a French or German scientist and place large orders for the devices. They were shipped to her family chateau,
Prangins Castle, outside
Geneva, where they were sewn into the linings of fashionable coats and other garments. She smuggled them past U.S. customs agents in New York, having successfully disguised them as the spoils of extravagant European shopping sprees for high-end fashions.
Sometimes science gets in the way and you have to resort to smuggling in contraband to make a better world.
It's all about the foundation, or Foundation on which you stand.
In 1916, Margaret Sanger opened a birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, New York, marking the first major endeavor of her career in social activism, which culminated in 1942 when she founded Planned Parenthood. Contrary to what many might assume from witnessing Planned Parenthood operate today as the nation’s largest abortion business, Sanger wasn’t an abortion activist.
Instead, she founded Planned Parenthood as part of a crusade for contraception, which she believed would be an important element of social progress. Unlike feminists later in the 20th century who demanded birth control as a means of liberating women from the supposed tyranny of the female body, Sanger and her allies had a more nefarious angle. It was the Progressive Era, and elite progressive leaders were advocating a frightening campaign: Anglo-Saxon–oriented eugenic policy as a means of reshaping the U.S. population to look, in their view, more ideally American.
Planned Parenthood condemns sex-, race-, and disability-based discrimination in every other context, except when it occurs in the womb.
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In other words, a Racist.
Democrats cry a good cry about the millionaires and billionaires until they find they need them to support their cause.
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