The founder of Planned Parenthood was known to have made racially charged remarks against black people

Majority view

The claim is broadly supported insofar as Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, did make racially charged statements and align herself with eugenics-era and white supremacist circles; however, some commonly repeated quotations about Black people are disputed or false. The strongest sources support the narrower proposition that her record included racist or racially insensitive remarks and associations, not that every specific quoted slur attributed to her is authentic.

Credible dissent

There is substantial disagreement over the extent and wording of Sanger's alleged racist remarks. Fact-checks and historian summaries reject some viral quotes attributed to her as fabricated, while other sources document her 1939 statement about not wanting word to go out that the intent was to exterminate the Negro population and her speech to a Ku Klux Klan auxiliary. This means the broad claim is supported, but specific cited remarks are contested.