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Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau
Plaza Hotel
Person
Hankins, Frank
Lovejoy, Owen
Fairchild, Henry Pratt
Place
United States
New York, NY
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<p>
<span class="line-through">The</span> Many critics of the Birth Control movement have failed to recognize how
closely the well-being of children is related <span class="line-through">upon</span> to the well-being and
happiness of their mothers. To protect the children we must also protect the Mothers.
It is now my great honor to introduce a man who has fought long and bravely for the
rights of <span class="line-through">American</span> children <span class="line-through">born in America</span>
<span class="addition">to be free</span>, <span class="line-through">and who has the insight and the courage to recognize that their first
inalienable right is the right to be well-born. It is my pleasure to introduce</span>
<span class="addition">and</span> the leader in the long fight against Child Labor--Mr. Owen Lovejoy.</p>
<p>Handwritten at bottom half of page</p>
<p>Thousands of women have already been grievously wounded in the battle of
life-- Emergency measures are all they ask--& all they are allowed to receive.
Week after week, day after day & hour after hour they come to us, appealing
& praying for help. Some of them come looking furtively about, hesitant
wondering how they shall be received.</p>
<p>They have run the gauntlet of various organizations & been denied the
information they sought.</p>
<p>They come to us troubled, inarticulate, like doomed souls crushed beneath the
force of a cruelly prolific nation.</p>
<p>These are the Martyrized Mothers of America.
They ask for help--for the right to life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness.</p>
<p>Temple of Motherhood.</p>
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Margaret Sanger
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1929-02-26
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<p>Sanger introduced Owen Lovejoy at the Sixth Anniversary dinner for the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau, held at New York's
Plaza Hotel. Related documents are her Opening Remarks and her introductions for Henry Pratt
Fairchild and Frank Hankins. For another version see LCM 129:750. Handwritten corrections by Sanger.</p>
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msp#128190
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<span class="mf">Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm, Library of Congress</span> LCM 129:750
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Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau
child welfare
women and girls--enslavement of
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[Introduction for Owen Lovejoy]
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Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau
World Population Conference, 1927
Plaza Hotel
New York University
Person
Lovejoy, Owen
Hankins, Frank
Fairchild, Henry Pratt
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Europe
New York, NY
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<p>Let's not forget that Birth Control is no mere matter of overburdened mothers with babes
in their arms and hungry children tugging at their skirts. It is a problem which affects
the whole world--politics, industry, immigration, and all grave international problems.
In 1927 there gathered in Geneva a large group of authorities on these problems--<span class="addition">300</span> scientists and historians from <span class="line-through">all</span>
<span class="addition">many</span> countries. One of them read an illuminating and masterly paper on "optimum Population" which received more attention from the press of
Europe than any other paper present at the World Population Conference
<span class="line-through">of 1927</span>. I <span class="line-through">am</span> <span class="addition">was</span> proud that the author of this paper is <span class="addition">was</span> an American resident of New York, and the professor of
<span class="line-through">sociology</span> <span class="addition">economics</span> at New York University. And I am even prouder of the fact that he has lent his prestige and
his presence to this gathering tonight. I have the great honor of introducing Dr. <span class="addition">Henry Pratt</span> Fairchild.</p>
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Margaret Sanger
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1929-02-26
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<p>Margaret Sanger introduced Henry Pratt
Fairchild at the Sixth Anniversary dinner for the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau, held at New York's
Plaza Hotel. See also Sanger's Opening Address and her introductions
for Owen Lovejoy and Frank Hankins.
Handwritten additions by Margaret Sanger.</p>
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msp#128197
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<span class="mf">Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm, Library of Congress,</span> LCM 129:750B
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birth control--international
Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau
conferences--World Population Conference--1927
population control
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[Introduction for Henry Pratt Fairchild]
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Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau
Plaza Hotel
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Hankins, Frank
Lovejoy, Owen
Fairchild, Henry Pratt
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New York, NY
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<p>One of the most encouraging aspects of this movement is to witness the rise of a new
generation of educators and leaders of opinion. <span class="addition">(</span> College professors used to
be notorious for their ignorance concerning life or anything outside their own
specialty. They were hard-shelled reactionaries concerning the vital problems of
humanity.<span class="addition">)</span> It is my honor now to introduce a fine representative of the
new educator, a man who is courageous in his outspoken attitude concerning the
fundamental ethical <span class="addition">moral</span> necessity for education in Birth Control--Dr.
<span class="addition">Frank</span> Hankins</p>
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Margaret Sanger
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1929-02-26
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<p>Margaret Sanger introduced Frank Hankins at the Sixth Anniversary dinner for the
Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau, held at New York's
Plaza Hotel. See also Sanger's Opening Address and her introductions
for Owen Lovejoy and
Henry Pratt Fairchild
. Handwritten additions by Margaret Sanger.</p>
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msp#128198
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<span class="mf">Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm, Library of Congress</span>, LCM 139:751
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birth control movement
Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau
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[Introduction for Frank Hankins]
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draft speech
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New York State Court of Appeals
Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau
Plaza Hotel
New York City Police Department
Person
Chance, Clinton F.
Place, Francis
Fairchild, Henry Pratt
Stone, Hannah Mayer
Bocker, Dorothy
Lovejoy, Owen
Mill, John Stuart
Comstock, Anthony
Hankins, Frank
Place
New York, NY
United States
Brooklyn, NY
Netherlands, the
Great Britain
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<div>
<h4><span class="addition">Opening Address by Margaret Sanger</span></h4>
<p>We are here tonight to celebrate a birthday. The Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau has just entered the seventh year of its existence. In the six years of its existence the Research Bureau commonly called the Birth Control Clinic--has demonstrated the success of a new way of solving old problems.</p>
<p>Just about one hundred years ago, when the possibilities of the control of population first seized the minds and the imagination of the Anglo-Saxon world, pioneers like Francis Place and John Stuart Mill, thought that all that was necessary was to scatter millions of leaflets to the masses telling them why and how they could prevent large families. A century ago men put great faith in the printed word. They scattered leaflets from the roofs of tenements and defied arrest for scattering broadcast "diabolical handbills."</p>
<p>Fifteen years ago, when the idea of Birth Control captured my imagination I went through the same experience and wrote, printed and disseminated leaflets and booklets. I was stopped by the Post Office Authorities and indicted for breaking a federal statute enacted under the reign of St. Anthony Comstock.</p>
<p>But experience is a bitter teacher. The more you go through, the less you believe in the miracle of printed words to effect the salvation of the lives of women and children.</p>
<p>In 1915 I visited Holland, and spent three months studying the actual technique of contraception. I became convinced that that overburdened women could be educated in Birth Control only by scientific instruction received from competent physicians and nurses in clinics established for that purpose and that purpose alone.</p>
<p>When I returned to this country, that idea was the central one in my mind. I did not realize the gigantic obstacles to overcome before that idea could be converted in reality. I plunged into activity, established a clinic in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. We operated for ten days and no less than four hundred and eighty eight mothers crowded into our limited quarters. Then the police descended upon us and called us a "public nuisance."</p>
<p>I carried this fight to the Supreme Court. In a decision handed down by the New York Court of Appeals permitted lawfully practising physicians to give contraceptive advice "<span class="CRAFR">for the cure of prevention of disease.</span>" This technical victory was won in 1918. With the aid of a woman physician I ventured on my own responsibility to establish a research bureau as a preliminary toward a clinic. In the meantime a small group of pioneers was working incessantly toward converting unintelligent public opinion to the legitimacy of the idea of Birth Control.</p>
<p>It was not until 1923--just six years ago--that I succeeded in finding anyone with sufficient faith and courage to support the research bureau with financial backing. Now Ill tell you an interesting little secret. It was not an American, but a gentleman in England who advanced the first five thousand dollars to pay the doctor's salary. That was all I needed. I found a competent physician. The research bureau was opened.</p>
<p>From that small beginning, the bureau has grown slowly, steadily and surely. Today we have seven women physicians on our medical staff, five trained nurses and two social workers.</p>
<p>We have investigated thirteen thousand cases. From that vast number we have the full records of ten thousand women who came to the bureau for advice and instruction as permitted under the law, "<span class="CRAFR">for the cure of prevention of disease.</span>" Hundreds of overburdened mothers who appeal to us are turned away because despite their misery and poverty do not come under this classification.</p>
<p>Since my first clinic was destroyed by the New York police, the idea has grown and matured not only in this country but in Great Britain as well. There are now twenty-six similar establishments in this country and about twenty in England. Our aim here is to develop the Clinical Research Bureau as a model of all other similar agencies in the United States. In this aim we are succeeding. Physicians from all civilized countries of the world come to us to learn the techniques of scientific contraception. We are aiming to perfect the bureau so that its methods and its administrations shall be above criticism.</p>
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Crane, Frederick Ewen
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Margaret Sanger
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1929-02-26
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<p>Margaret Sanger delivered speech at a dinner promoting the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau in New York's Plaza Hotel. Other speakers were: Owen Lovejoy, Henry Pratt Fairchild, Frank Hankins and Hannah Stone. For Sanger's introductions see Hankins, Lovejoy and Fairchild. Handwritten additions were made by Sanger. For an early draft see the Library of Congreee micofilm, LCM 130:479.</p>
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msp#234094
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<span class="mf">Margaret Sanger Microfilm Edition, Smith College Collections</span> S71:153
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birth control--propaganda and publicity
birth control clinics and leagues
Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau
Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau--records
birth control laws and legislation--Comstock Laws
birth control legal cases--Crane Decision'
birth control movement--history of
Brownsville Clinic--arrests, trials and imprisonment
England--birth control clinics
Sanger, Margaret--arrests, trials and imprisonment
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Opening Address for Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau Dinner
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Typed speech