Margaret Sanger gave this address as part of a Wesleyan University undergraduate conference on marriage, held in Middletown, CT. Other speakers included Erdman Harris, Father John M. Cooper, Dr.William B. Terhune, Rev. Roy B. Chamberlain, and Dr. Clarence G. Campbell. A complete version of Sanger's address has not been located, but additional quotes reported in "Mrs. Sanger Says State Law 'Stupid'," Hartford Courant (CT), Dec. 10, 1932, p. 2, have been added at the bottom of Sanger's draft notes. For report of a similar speech, also not found, see "Speech to the Hartford Branch of the Connecticut Birth Control League," Dec. 10, 1932.
Wesleyan Dec 12/32
Victor Hugo–- "No force in the world so great as that of an idea whose hour has struck."
I believe that the hour for birth control has struck, because there is no subject that has so large a practical significance which at the same time cuts so deeply into the foundations of social evolution as birth control.
There is probably no other subject of equal importance, left so long in equal obscurity & yet none which can show so unequalled a rise on our national horizon as this question has done within the past few years.
G B Shaw says its the most revolutionary idea of the present century. H G. Wells says its the most momentous fact of modern life.
The most intelligent English opinion of Church & the professions have claimed itto be of immediate importance in solving the Social & Economic problems of the world.
Birth Control is the signal of a new social & moral awakening. It is not only a health & economic expedient. Its a great Social principle, interlocked with thefuture development of women & the spiritual progress of the race.
Birth Control is the conscious control of the birth rate, by means that prevent the conception of life. The emphasis is placed on prevention & not on interference or destruction of life.
The emphasis is placed on control & not on limitation.
It is also placed on conscious control instead of the reckless abandon to the moment with children the result. (haphazard, accidental conceptions) A generation ago it cost $10 to bring a baby into the world–-today because we have limited the output & placed a higher value on child life, we have increased its value & prepared the way for its higher development.
Birth Control will prevent children from being born to become buffers between two discordant parents, or become victims of marriage, of immature persons who make chattels of them for their own personal satisfaction or exploit them as wage earners to support an increasingly large family.
There are seven obvious reasons to practice birth control
1st When ever either man or woman has a transmissible disease. Insanity, feeblemindedness, epilepsy etc.
2nd. When the woman has any disease in which pregnancy complicates the cure such a stuberculosis, heart or kidney diseases.
3rd- When parents tho apparently normal have already produced subnormal or defective children, deaf mutes, cleft palates, mental defectives.
4 To allow two or three years between births in order to space the children to give the mother a chance to recuperate & prepare for the next child.
5th. Birth control should be practiced until often the adolescent period is passed–-even tho’ early marriage is advised or counselled.
6th BC should be practiced for economic reasons-–parents should not have more children than they can decently provide for.
7th. BC should be practiced for two or three years after marriage in order to make a better adjustment & to strengthen & cement the marriage bond, through understanding & knowledge of each other & through the development of mutual interests play & cultural interests.
There are Three ways to control the birth rate or the size of the family.
1 Continence
2 Sterilization
3 Chemical or mechanical means of preventing conception.
None of these should be advised by laymen–-not even the clergy.-–all methods to be safe, reliable & harmless must be individually considered by qualified persons with knowledge of psychology anatomy & physiology.
The Medical Profession
Conn. State law Sec 6246 makes it a crime for any one to use any drug chemical or mechanical for the purpose of preventing conception.
Fed law Sec 211. Prevents Physicians or anyone from using the US mails or Common carriers to in purchasing books, literature, supplies Conn State law is unique in its that it stands alone in the 48 States as an example of bad law which can not be enforced–-& insults the intelligence of its citizens by classing this law as “offences against Humanity and Morality.”
Additional quotes taken from "Mrs. Sanger Says State's Law 'Stupid':"
"It is high time to take the question of birth control out of the gutter where Congress placed it 60 years ago, and to put it on a scientific plane where it belongs. . . ."
Defining birth control, a term she declared to have been her privilege to coin, as "the conscious control of the birth rate by means that prevent the conception of human life," Mrs. Sanger vehemently denied that advocates of the movement desire to interfere with life, or to destroy it. "Where there is no life there can be no destruction or interference. . . Those who claim that birth control interferes with potential life forget that all who remain single are, in a sense, interfering with potential life. . . . "
Mrs. Sanger expressed amazement over the fact that Connecticut, "with more colleges and universities than any other state," and therefore the most intelligent, should have the "stupidist" laws concerning the dissemination of birth control information. "How can a law that says it is a crime for anyone to use contraceptive devices be enforced?" she asked. Mrs. Sanger said that while New York State Law is almost as "stupid," many states do allow the proper spread of birth control information and she deplored the law making it illegal to use the mails to notify people as to where they may secure the necessary information. She cited cases to show that New York's law, which allows information to be given to women to who childbirth would mean death, operates unjustly in many instances when no definite proof can be given of actual danger. She listed seven reasons for birth control, which included the elimination of insanity, the proper spacing of children, the protection of health in adolescent marriages, the protection of women when they have such ailments as consumption, the development of companionship in marriage and economic factors.
"No person," Mrs. Sanger declared, "has a right to bring children into the world when he cannot provide for them." She concluded with a brief discussion of the three ways of limiting the size of families, continence, sterilization, and contraception.
No final version found.
[Notes for Population Control Speech]
We are all in the throes of troubled times. Few of us can gauge its depths or realize its significance.
Recently the Pres of the Bank of England after a visit to Canada & US. is reported to have said, that no man or group of men are born who care to solve our problems or lead us out of our Social & Economic chaos. This brought to my mind one of the early prophecies of that brilliant & far sighted man H G. Wells who said "There are two natural forces at work which may make or destroy civilizations. The first is the rapid growth of mans fertility--the second the slow growth of the mass mind." One couple may produce within a lifetime over 100 beings. The mind is of slow growth & development & can not cope with conditions & problems arising out of population pressure. Much of the chaos today stems back to the prolific breeding of our forbears. We have continued to multiply our numbers while we have lent every effort to install machines to take mans place to do his work & throw him on the scrap heap of the jobless. Coal mines, glass works, silk & woolen mills all are products of an age where man's labor is no longer necessary for social purposes. Demand for mans labor has decreased.
Machinery has taken his place. Human reproduction has increased from these same groups, the unskilled, the illiterate.
1 man loads 10 tons coal a day in old days or 300 tons a month.
Now--4 men load 300 tons in 8 hours.
Victor Hugo. "no force in the world so great as that of an idea whose hour has struck" no subject has so large a practical significance which at the same time cuts so deeply into the foundation of social evolution as bc.
Two fundamental Problems confront Civilization
Pressure of population upon means of existence, job markets, machines. Reconciling humanitarian efforts with race improvement.
Billions are being spent in charities the effect of which is to increase the dysgenic types, the derelicts, the morons & to tax the normal & intellegent for their maintenance.
E A Ross claims that over 200,000,000 new human beings came into being last year 50,000 a day.
Wm Starr Meyers claims that only 15% of our ppulation can be said to be intellectual of the remaining 85% he says that 45% is subnormal 15% feebleminded & 25% mediocre.
History tells us that our civilization is tending to kill off the very types that have
Bc is the keynote of a new social & moral awakening. It is not only a health & economic expedient its a great social principle interlocked with the spiritual advance of woman & the moral progress of the race.
Bc is the conscious control of the birth rate by means that Prevent the corruption of life-- Prevent not destroy not interfere. No more an interference with life than living in celibacy, continence or remaining single or unmarried.
Control not limit--furnace, motor car traffic, conduct, temper, life & behavior. Conscious--not an accident & reckless abandon to the moment with regrets tears & broken lives in its trail. Conceived in love choice not chance born conscious desire deliberate intentional given the heritage of sound body & mind
3 Considerations
Mothers health, fathers earning power, standard of living you wish to maintain.
Population control
Margaret Sanger gave an address as part of a Wesleyan University undergraduate conference on marriage, held in Middletown,Connecticut. Other speakers included Erdman Harris, Father John M. Cooper, Dr.William B. Terhune, Rev. Roy B. Chamberlain and Dr. Clarence G. Campbell. A complete version of Sanger's talk has not been located, but additional quotes can befound in "Speech to the Hartford Branch of the Connecticut Birth Control League," Dec. 10, 1932.
Westleyan Dec 12/32
Victor Hugo–- No force in theworld so great as that of an idea whose hour has struck. I believe that thehour for birth control has struck, because there is no subject that has so large a practical significance which at the same time cuts so deeply into the foundations of social evolution as birth control.
There is probably no other subject of equal importance, left so long in equal obscurity & yet none which can show so unequalled a rise on our national horizonas this question has done within the past few years.
G B Shaw says it’s the most revolutionary idea of the present century H G. Wells says it’s the most momentous fact of modern life.
The most intelligent English opinion of Church & the professions have claimed itto be of immediate importance in solving the Social & Economic problems of the world.
Birth Control is the signal of a new social & moral awakening. It is not only a health & economic expedient it’s a great social principle, interlocked with the future development of women & the spiritual progress of the race. Birth Control is the conscious control of the birth rate, by means that prevent the conception of life. The emphasis is placed on prevention & not on interference or destruction of life.
The emphasis is placed on control & not on limitation.
It is also placed on conscious control instead of the reckless abandon to the momen twith children the result. (haphazard &, accidental conceptions).
A generation ago it cost $10 to bring a baby into the world–-today because we have limited the output & placed a higher value on child life, we have increased its value & prepared the way for its higher development.
Birth Control will prevent children from being born to become buffers between two discordant parents, or become victims of marriage, of immature persons who make chattels of them for their own personal satisfaction or exploit them as wage earners to support an increasingly large family.
There are seven obvious reasons to practice birth control
1st When ever either man or woman has a transmissible disease. Insanity, feeblemindedness, epilepsy etc.
2nd. When the woman has any disease in which pregnancy complicates the cure such as tuberculosis, heart or kidney diseases.
3rd. When parents tho apparently normal have already produced subnormal or defective children, deaf mutes, cleft palates, mental defectives.
4 To allow two or three years between births in order to space the children to givethe mother a chance to recuperate & prepare for the next child.
5th. Birth control should be practiced until often the adolescent period is passed– even tho’ early marriage is advised or counselled.
6th BC should be practiced for economic reasons–-parents should not have more children than they can decently provide for.
7th. BC should be practiced for two or three years after marriage in order to make a better adjustment & to strengthen & cement the marriage bond, through understanding & knowledge of each other & through the development of mutual interests play & cultural interests.
There are Three ways to control the birth rate or the size of the family.
1 Continence
2 Sterilization
3 Chemical or mechanical means of preventing conception.
None of these should be advised by laymen–-not even the clergy.-- All methods to be safe, reliable & harmless must be individually considered by qualified persons with knowledge of psychology anatomy & physiology.
The Medical Profession
Conn. State lawSec 6246 makes it a crime for any one to use any drug chemical or mechanism for the purpose of preventing conception.
Fed law Sec 211 prevents Physicians or anyone from using the US mails or common carriers to in purchasing books, literature, supplies.
Conn State law is unique in its that it stands alone in the 48 States as an example of bad law which can not be enforced–- & insults the intelligence of its citizens by classing this law as "offences against Humanity and Morality.”
Margaret Sanger gave this address as part of a Wesleyan University undergraduate conference on marriage, held in Middletown, Connecticut. Other speakers included Erdman Harris, Father John M. Cooper, Dr. William B. Terhune, Rev. Roy B. Chamberlain, and Dr. Clarence G. Campbell. A complete version of Sanger's address has not been located, but additional quotes reported in "Mrs. Sanger Says State Law 'Stupid'," Hartford Courant, Dec. 10, 1932, p. 2, have been added at the bottom of Sanger's draft notes. For report of a similar speech, also not found, see "Speech to the Hartford Branch of the Connecticut Birth Control League," Dec. 10, 1932.
Westleyan Dec 12/32
Victor Hugo–- No force in the world so great as that of an idea whose hour has struck.
I believe that the hour for birth control has struck, because there is no subject that has so large a practical significance which at the same time cuts so deeply into the foundations of social evolution as birth control.
There is probably no other subject of equal importance, left so long in equal obscurity & yet none which can show so unequalled a rise on our national horizon as this question has done within the past few years.
G B Shaw says its the most revolutionary idea of the present century. HG. Wells says its the most momentous fact of modern life.
The most intelligent English opinion of Church & the professions have claimed it to be of immediate importance in solving the Social & Economic problems of the world.
Birth Control is the signal of a new social & moral awakening. It is not only a health & economic expedient. Its a great Social principle, interlocked with the future development of women & the spiritual progress of the race.
Birth Control is the conscious control of the birth rate, by means that prevent the conception of life. The emphasis is placed on prevention & not on interference or destruction of life.
The emphasis is placed on control & not on limitation.
It is also placed on conscious control instead of the reckless abandon to the moment with children the result. (haphazard, accidental conceptions) A generation ago it cost $10 to bring a baby into the world–-today because we have limited the output & placed a higher value on child life, we have increased its value & prepared the way for its higher development.
Birth Control will prevent children from being born to become buffers between two discordant parents, or become victims of marriage, of immature persons who make chattels of them for their own personal satisfaction or exploit them as wage earners to support an increasingly large family.
There are seven obvious reasons to practice birth control
1st When ever either man or woman has a transmissible disease. Insanity, feeblemindedness, epilepsy etc.
2nd. When the woman has any disease in which pregnancy complicates the cure such as tuberculosis, heart or kidney diseases.
3rd- When parents tho apparently normal have already produced subnormal or defective children, deaf mutes, cleft palates, mental defectives.
4 To allow two or three years between births in order to space the children to give the mother a chance to recuperate & prepare for the next child.
5th. Birth control should be practiced until often the adolescent period is passed– even tho’ early marriage is advised or counselled.
6th BC should be practiced for economic reasons– parents should not have more children than they can decently provide for.
7th. BC should be practiced for two or three years after marriage in order to make a better adjustment & to strengthen & cement the marriage bond, through understanding & knowledge of each other & through the development of mutual interests play & cultural interests.
There are Three ways to control the birth rate or the size of the family.
1 Continence
2 Sterilization
3 Chemical or mechanical means of preventing conception.
None of these should be advised by laymen– not even the clergy.– all methods to be safe, reliable & harmless must be individually considered by qualified persons with knowledge of psychology anatomy & physiology.
The Medical Profession
Conn. State law Sec 6246 makes it a crime for any one to use any drug chemical or mechanical for the purpose of preventing conception.
Fed law Sec 211. Prevents Physicians or anyone from using the US mails or Common carriers to in purchasing books, literature, supplies Conn State law is unique in its that it stands alone in the 48 States as an example of bad law which can not be enforced– & insults the intelligence of its citizens by classing this law as “offences against Humanity and Morality.”
Additional quotes taken from "Mrs. Sanger Says State's Law 'Stupid':
"It is high time to take the question of birth control out of the gutter where Congress placed it 60 years ago, and to put it on a scientific plane where it belongs. . ."
Defining birth control, a term she declared to have been her privilege to coin, as "the conscious control of the birth rate by means that prevent the conception of human life," Mrs. Sanger vehemently denied that advocates of the movement desire to interfere with life, or to destroy it. "Where there is no life there can be no destruction or interference. . . Those who claim that birth control interferes with potential life forget that all who remain single are, in a sense, interfering with potential life... "
Mrs. Sanger expressed amazement over the fact that Connecticut, "with more colleges and universities than any other state," and therefore the most intelligent, should have the "stupidist" laws concerning the dissemination of birth control information. "How can a law that says it is a crime for anyone to use contraceptive devices be enforced? she asked. Mrs. Sanger said that while New York State Law is almost as "stupid," many states do allow the proper spread of birth control information and she deplored the law making it illegal to use the mails to notify people as to where they may secure the necessary information. She cited cases to show that New York's law, which allows information to be given to women to who childbirth would mean death, operates unjustly in many instances when no definite proof can be given of actual danger. She listed seven reasons for birth control, which included the elimination of insanity, the proper spacing of children, the protection of health in adolescent marriages, the protection of women when they have such ailments as consumption, the development of companionship in marriage and economic factors.
"No person," Mrs. Sanger declared, "has a right to bring children into the world when he cannot provide for them." She concluded with a brief discussion of the three ways of limiting the size of families, continence, sterilization, and contraception.
No final version found.
[Notes for Speech on Population Control]
We are all in the throes of troubled times. Few of us can gauge its depths or realize its significance.
Recently the Pres of the Bank of England after a visit to Canada & US. is reported to have said, that no man or group of men are born who care to solve our problems or lead us out of our Social & Economic chaos. This brought to my mind one of the early prophecies of that brilliant & far sighted man H G. Wells who said "There are two natural forces at work which may make or destroy civilizations. The first is the rapid growth of mans fertility--the second the slow growth of the mass mind." One couple may produce within a lifetime over 100 beings. The mind is of slow growth & development & can not cope with conditions & problems arising out of population pressure. Much of the chaos today stems back to the prolific breeding of our forbears. We have continued to multiply our numbers while we have lent every effort to install machines to take mans place to do his work & throw him on the scrap heap of the jobless. Coal mines, glass works, silk & woolen mills all are products of an age where man's labor is no longer necessary for social purposes. Demand for mans labor has decreased.
Machinery has taken his place. Human reproduction has increased from these same groups, the unskilled, the illiterate.
1 man loads 10 tons coal a day in old days or 300 tons a month.
Now--4 men load 300 tons in 8 hours.
Victor Hugo. "no force in the world so great as that of an idea whose hour has struck" no subject has so large a practical significance which at the same time cuts so deeply into the foundation of social evolution as bc.
Two fundamental Problems confront Civilization
Pressure of population upon means of existence, job markets, machines. Reconciling humanitarian efforts with race improvement.
Billions are being spent in charities the effect of which is to increase the dysgenic types, the derelicts, the morons & to tax the normal & intellegent for their maintenance.
E A Ross claims that over 200,000,000 new human beings came into being last year 50,000 a day.
Wm Starr Meyers claims that only 15% of our ppulation can be said to be intellectual of the remaining 85% he says that 45% is subnormal 15% feebleminded & 25% mediocre.
History tells us that our civilization is tending to kill off the very types that have
Bc is the keynote of a new social & moral awakening. It is not only a health & economic expedient its a great social principle interlocked with the spiritual advance of woman & the moral progress of the race.
Bc is the conscious control of the birth rate by means that Prevent the corruption of life-- Prevent not destroy not interfere. No more an interference with life than living in celibacy, continence or remaining single or unmarried.
Control not limit--furnace, motor car traffic, conduct, temper, life & behavior. Conscious--not an accident & reckless abandon to the moment with regrets tears & broken lives in its trail. Conceived in love choice not chance born conscious desire deliberate intentional given the heritage of sound body & mind
3 Considerations
Mothers health, fathers earning power, standard of living you wish to maintain.
Population control
Margaret Sanger gave an address as part of a Wesleyan University undergraduate conference on marriage, held in Middletown, Connecticut. Other speakers included Erdman Harris, Father John M. Cooper, Dr. William B. Terhune, Rev. Roy B. Chamberlain and Dr. Clarence G. Campbell. A complete version of Sanger's talk has not been located, but additional quotes can befound in "Speech to the Hartford Branch of the Connecticut Birth Control League, Dec. 10, 1932.
Westleyan Dec 12/32
Victor Hugo–- No force in the world so great as that of an idea whose hour has struck. I believe that the hour for birth control has struck, because there is no subject that has so large a practical significance which at the same time cuts so deeply into the foundations of social evolution as birth control.
There is probably no other subject of equal importance, left so long in equal obscurity & yet none which can show so unequalled a rise on our national horizon as this question has done within the past few years.
G B Shaw says it’s the most revolutionary idea of the present century HG. Wells says it’s the most momentous fact of modern life.
The most intelligent English opinion of Church & the professions have claimed it to be of immediate importance in solving the Social & Economic problems of the world.
Birth Control is the signal of a new social & moral awakening. It is not only a health & economic expedient it’s a great social principle, interlocked with the future development of women & the spiritual progress of the race. Birth Control is the conscious control of the birth rate, by means that prevent the conception of life. The emphasis is placed on prevention & not on interference or destruction of life.
The emphasis is placed on control & not on limitation.
It is also placed on conscious control instead of the reckless abandon to the moment with children the result. (haphazard &, accidental conceptions).
A generation ago it cost $10 to bring a baby into the world–-today because we have limited the output & placed a higher value on child life, we have increased its value & prepared the way for its higher development.
Birth Control will prevent children from being born to become buffers between two discordant parents, or become victims of marriage, of immature persons who make chattels of them for their own personal satisfaction or exploit them as wage earners to support an increasingly large family.
There are seven obvious reasons to practice birth control
1st When ever either man or woman has a transmissible disease. Insanity, feeblemindedness, epilepsy etc.
2nd. When the woman has any disease in which pregnancy complicates the cure such as tuberculosis, heart or kidney diseases.
3rd. When parents tho apparently normal have already produced subnormal or defective children, deaf mutes, cleft palates, mental defectives.
4 To allow two or three years between births in order to space the children to give the mother a chance to recuperate & prepare for the next child.
5th. Birth control should be practiced until often the adolescent period is passed– even tho’ early marriage is advised or counselled.
6th BC should be practiced for economic reasons–-parents should not have more children than they can decently provide for.
7th. BC should be practiced for two or three years after marriage in order to make a better adjustment & to strengthen & cement the marriage bond, through understanding & knowledge of each other & through the development of mutual interests play & cultural interests.
There are Three ways to control the birth rate or the size of the family.
1 Continence
2 Sterilization
3 Chemical or mechanical means of preventing conception.
None of these should be advised by laymen–-not even the clergy.-- All methods to be safe, reliable & harmless must be individually considered by qualified persons with knowledge of psychology anatomy & physiology.
The Medical Profession
Conn. State law Sec 6246 makes it a crime for any one to use any drug chemical or mechanism for the purpose of preventing conception.
Fed law Sec 211 prevents Physicians or anyone from using the US mails or common carriers to in purchasing books, literature, supplies.
Conn State law is unique in its that it stands alone in the 48 States as an example of bad law which can not be enforced–- & insults the intelligence of its citizens by classing this law as "offences against Humanity and Morality.”
The list of books at the end was typed on the last page.
]]>Sanger delivered a speech based on these notes at Edwards Hall in the Yale University Divinity School. For a later version see, "The Necessity of Birth Control," Dec. 19, 1928.
The list of books at the end was typed on the last page.
Dec 3 1924, School of Divinity Yale University New Haven, CT
Victor Hugo: There is no force in the world like that of an idea whose hour has come.
What is bc?
B.C. is the conscious control of the b rate by scientific means that prevent the conception of human life. History supports fact that nature ruthless pestilence, floods, crime war always operated to settle population.
Barbarism, avagery, early civilizationion, killed off old, infanticide.
Plato, Aristotle Seneca.
Middle ages to end of 18 Century.
Knowledge & practice of BC will end need for abortion foeticide.
Two classes-- Bertillon Paris--23--116-- Berlin--57--147-- London--60-200.
1
2 slums, child labor.
Charities 8 Billions--
Wells statement-- Intelligence slow growth Disease, Defectives Delinquents Dependents
Legislation useless-- Infant Mort. 200,000 400,000 parents ignorant}
Maternal mortality 20,000, mothers-- tb. kidney 4 out of 7 die tb.
Feeble-minded.
Dr. Myers Statemt
Jukes & Kallikaks--
Insane-- parole--
Child labor--older children pushed out to compete.
Society for Prevention of Cruelty.
If register for parents child to choose parents}
Immigration laws--keep out undesired types.
International problem England's colonies, Japan-- USA China,
When B C should be practiced 7 reasons--
Three methods-- Continence Sterilization chemical & mechanical
Laws--
Gentlemen of the new generation.
Throw off blinders of prejudice & ignorance which has kept motherhood in bondage. Have we not paid enough for this.
Sanger used these notes for a speech she gave to the Milwaukee, WI Open Forum on November 6, 1923.
MilwaukeeNov. 6--1923
Victor Hugo says "There is no force in the world like that of an idea whose hour has come."
B.C has come to solve mothers conflict. Intelligence viz reproduction} all lower species as they ascend scale evolution & become more intelligent. Cease to reproduce so abundantly.
Responsible parenthood sign of intelligence.
Excessive Races could not wait so infanticide & abortion prevailed Savagery, Barbarism & Early Civilization.
Sutherlands remarks on Origin & Growth of Moral Instinct. Read Well to do few children. This for the biological aspect! Now for the racial, Social & Individual.
Conflict Population reproduction viz subsistence} Malthus theory constant pressure of population against means--subsistence.
population 2, 48, 16, 32, 64
food 2, 4, 6, 8, 10
Malthus lived in a world with no telephone, telegraph, locomotive, steam boats or motor cars could not foresee improvements--nor doubled populationb birth rate has lowered--population increased.
Whole world overcrowded double population last century} intelligence social & economic systems equipment, houses, schools, poverty, ignorance, slums disease, wars.
Malthus advocated late marriage & continence. B.C. Organization advocate early marriage & knowledge.
conscious control birth rate--not abortion nor infanticide.
Individual problem--} health economic racial
4 critical stages adult life
B.C. will help adolescent live clean lives, early marriage.
Married life}
B.C. pivot married happiness.
Causes for unhappiness in marriage} health or disease-- maturity flirt, giddy--
Mans ignorance in art of love}
Orangutang & a violin. meeting for men only
Mans nature simple & direct
Woman's complex. Clinics to help
3 kinds of B.C.}
When not to have children.
Epicletus said of Athens "The spring time went out of her years."
58,432 letters, what do they ask? Church, Society, Science no place for her. Push her back into mire.
Della's story Chicago men helped.
Can b.c help these women} Chicago case high grade imbecile.
Western States Clinics-- Federal law Chicago, Denver, Holland, Mexico China, England Vienna Iowa Dallas
Womens enslavement} upon fruits of her womb has all been founded--}
She has made life cheap. Children by chance--now by choice, perfect bodies--beautiful as can be made. Temples of the Soul and a perfect instrument for its use during its journey throughout its various stages vicissitudes of material existence. development