Alexander C. Sanger (born November 15, 1947) is an American reproductive rights activist, and the former Chair of the International Planned Parenthood Council.
[1] He is the grandson of Margaret Sanger,[2] the founder of Planned Parenthood, who opened America's first birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in 1916.
[8] During Sanger's tenure as president of PPNYC during the 1990s, the organization rejected funds tied to the domestic gag rule, Title X, after the case Rust v. Sullivan lost in the U.S. Supreme Court in 1991.
[19] In 1997 the Food and Drug Administration announced that six brands of birth control pills could be safely used as emergency contraceptive, after PPNYC filed a petition advocating for this outcome.
[28][29] After his retirement as president and chief executive of New York City's Planned Parenthood in 2000, Sanger took up drawing and watercolors.
The foundation also supports the Luna Competition Lab, which targets high-schoolers, and funding for female composition students at the Juilliard School.
The foundation has also helped establish an initiative for female choreographers at the School of American Ballet and fund a major study on gender equity in the theater world in 2016.
Fighting to promote gender equality in the performing arts, Sanger offered seven leading American orchestras a chance at a $50,000 grant for a new work by an emerging female composer.