This Day in History: Margaret Sanger opens 1st Birth Control Clinic

On this day (Oct. 16th, 1916) Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, opened up her first “family planning” clinic. The location of the clinic was no accident. She picked a poor area of Brooklyn that was mostly minorities. This coincided with her ultimate goal, which she expressed in a number of personal letters, which was the “extermination” of blacks and other minorities which she considered inferior.