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Planned Parenthood Gives Margaret Sanger Award to Newspaper Editor

The president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America came to Durango on Thursday to honor reproductive-rights activist Morley C. Ballantine. Ballantine, The Durango Herald's chairman and editor, was feted at a lunch at the Strater Hotel. Gloria Feldt gave Ballantine the Margaret Sanger Award, named for the sex-education pioneer who opened the country's first birth-control clinic. Ballantine's mother, Elizabeth Cowles, met Sanger in 1934 and, as a result, Cowles founded Planned Parenthood of Iowa. (Meet Margaret Sanger Founder of Planned Parenthood: Margaret Sanger, the alcoholic and Demerol addict who spawned the International Planned Parenthood Federation, was a proponent of forced eugenics, segregation, abortion, birth control and sexual immorality.) Posted by Editor at July 19, 2004 08:29 AM