Planned Parenthood of Greater New York will remove the name of Margaret Singer, the founder of the women’s health organization and reproductive rights advocate, from the group’s Manhattan clinic due to her advocacy of eugenics, The New York Times reports.

Sanger opened her first birth control clinic in 1916 in Brooklyn after visiting Holland and learning about the availability of birth control in Europe.  She was arrested by New York authorities for running a “public nuisance,” for which she was sentenced to 30 days in a workhouse.

Her repeated confrontations with the law made her a hero for the women’s rights movement at a time when women were fighting for their right to vote in the United States.

Sanger, however, was also an advocate for eugenics, particularly “negative eugenics,” the theory that you improve the human race by eliminating the ability of those “unfit” to reproduce.  Unlike most American eugenists of the time, Sanger did not specifically target specific races; her view targeted general ideas of being a burden to society and “improving” genetic selection.

“The removal of Margaret Sanger’s name from our building is both a necessary and overdue step to reckon with our legacy and acknowledge Planned Parenthood’s contributions to historical reproductive harm within communities of color,” Karen Seltzer, the chair of the New York affiliate’s board, said in a statement obtained by the Times.