[TR] America's beloved eugenicist Margaret Sanger will be getting her own movie based on the novel about her rise to become the founder of Planned Parenthood, America's abortion conglomerate that now receives $500 million a year in federal funds. According to Deadline Hollywood, the film will be based on Ellen Feldman’s novel Terrible Virtue and will be produced by Black Bicycle Entertainment and producer Justine Ciarrochhi.
Terrible Virtue focuses on Sanger as the daughter of a hard-drinking, smooth-tongued free thinker and mother worn down by 13 children, who vowed her life would be different. Following Sanger’s training as a nurse, her work alongside labor organizers, anarchists, socialists and other progressives and eventually her devotion to the cause of legalizing contraception, the film examines the risks she took and the impact she had that lasts to the present day.
Terrible Virtue referred to Sanger as a "complex, enigmatic revolutionary" in the description on the book's back cover:
This complex, enigmatic revolutionary was at once vain and charismatic, generous and ruthless, sexually impulsive and coolly calculating--a competitive, self-centered woman who championed all women, a conflicted mother who suffered the worst tragedy a parent can experience. From opening the first illegal birth control clinic in America in 1916 through the founding of Planned Parenthood to the arrival of the Pill in the 1960s, Margaret Sanger sacrificed two husbands, three children, and scores of lovers in her fight for sexual equality and freedom.
Planned Parenthood now performs 300,000 abortions per year in the United States.