About a century ago, Margaret Sanger, the founder of the organization, created a journal called Birth Control Review. In it, she published numerous papers on the need for purifying the race through selective breeding and culling. Some of the titles included "Some Moral Aspects of Eugenics" (June 1920), "The Eugenic Conscience" (February 1921), "The Purpose of Eugenics" (December 1924), "Birth Control and Positive Eugenics" (July 1925), "Birth Control: The True Eugenics" (August 1928). From her own childhood experience, Sanger believed that overpopulation was the source of most societal ills, writing that she "...associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jails with large families."
While many, then and now, might agree with that sentiment, she took it much further. In her seminal book Women and the New Race, she wrote that "The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." When it came to a one-child policy, China had nothing on her.