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God.
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California Hall
American Birth Control League
Fifth International Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Clinic
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Eisenhart, Katherine
Parton, Mary
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Asia
China
England,
San Francisco, CA
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Netherlands, the
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<p>"Birth control does not mean race suicide," <span class="SFC">declared Margaret Sanger, head of the
Birth Control league
in an address ysterday afternoon before an audience in California hall.</span> "Scientific
birth control has already operated in a number of countries such as Holland,
New Zealand and others, for sufficient time to demonstrate that instead of race suicide the
percentage of infant survivals has been greatly increased with a better type and class of manhood and no decrease in population."</p>
<p><span class="SFC">The speaker traced the history of birth control, maintaining that it was not a new idea. She said it was,
in fact, one of nature's fundamental laws, as in the natural course of events, without the interference of science, nature will weed out
the sick, the old and feeble and the diseased to make room for the strong and healthy.</span></p>
<div class="section">
<h4 class="sub-heading">Describes Two Groups</h4>
<p><span class="SFC">Mrs. Sanger declared that the human race has divided broadly into two classes, the
large family group and the small family group. She insisted that in the latter group
are to be found culture, leisure, wealth and two or three children, who are brought
up under the best conditions, sent to universities and given every advantage in
life. In the large family group, according to the speaker, are found poverty,
misery, the tenement life, infant and maternal mortality and the breeding places of
all today's vital sociological problems.</span></p>
<p>"Yet it is from the former group that the greatest clamor comes against giving to the
latter group the information which allows the small family group to be what it is," <span class="SFC">said the speaker.</span></p>
<div class="section">
<h4 class="sub-heading">Defends Birth Control</h4>
<p>"Not only do we want to protect society from further propagation of the sick and insane,"
<span class="SFC">said Mrs. Sanger,</span> "but we want to make motherhood a conscious and voluntary act, giving
her a chance to develop her own individuality and that of her children."</p>
<p>"You have been told that birth control is against the laws of God. I say to you that
if you, as an individual, believe in God as a divine intelligence who has endowed you with the power to think and to reason, then you
certainly are at liberty to apply that intelligence according to the dictates of your
conscience."</p>
<p>"Every advance in science has been attacked in this same manner. It is against the laws of
nature for a man to shave, to cut his hair, to walk on two legs, instead of four, to
ride in street cars or to submit an operation to save a life, just as much as it is
against those laws for him to practice birth control," <span class="SFC">said the speaker.</span></p>
<div class="section">
<h4 class="sub-heading">Wants Scientific Clinics</h4>
<p>"What we need at present is scientific clinics at which the fundamentals of birth control
can be taught. We should get away from the back-yard gossip and through the clinic bring
to the poor woman who cannot afford to pay for it under the present conditions the same
information that the rich woman gets today."</p>
<p><span class="SFC">The speaker denied that birth control would result in race suicide. She
maintained that the maternal instinct is so great in women that they will perform
the sacred duty of bearing and rearing children, but that with control an
established fact the work will be done under conditions which are best for mother
and child.</span></p>
<p><span class="SFC">Mrs. Sanger told of being excluded from Japan, but expressed the hope
that this bar would eventually be lifted. She emphasized the need of the doctrine in
Japan, saying:</span></p>
<p>"When the pressure of population gets too great in any country there can be but two ways
of relief. One is war, with its attendant loss of life and possible increase in
territory in the case of the victor and the other is through scientific birth control.
Of the two, I believe that the latter is by far the better way."</p>
<div class="section">
<h4 class="sub-heading">Will Go to England</h4>
<p><span class="SFC">The speaker said that she will continue her journey to the Orient, lecturing in
China and India, and going on to England,
where she will attend an international conference on birth control.</span></p>
<p><span class="SFC">Mrs. Mary Parton acted as chairman of the meeting,
introducing the speaker. During the questioning which followed the regular lecture a
woman in the audience asked,</span> <span class="UNK">"Is there any book now published which gives inside
information on birth control"</span></p>
<p><span class="SFC">Mrs. Sanger smiled and nodding toward the door of the hall answered,</span></p>
<p>"There are two policemen standing at the door who would be very glad to know the answer to that question."</p>
<p><span class="SFC">A detail of plain clothes officers was present at the meeting. Mrs. Katherine Eisenhart
was a member of the detail. No action was taken by the officers to stop the lecture or to prevent the
distribution of pamphlets, which were given out at the door.</span></p>
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<p>For additional coverage of her speech, see "Birth Control Leader Fights Japanese Ban," in
<span class="newspaper"><span class="italics">San Francisco Chronicle,</span></span> Feb. 19, 1922. Sanger gave this address in
California Hall in San Francisco.</p>
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<span class="article">"Mrs. Sanger's Talk Gets by Police Censors,"</span> <span class="newspaper"><span class="italics">San Francisco Chronicle</span></span>, Feb. 20, 1922, p. 3.
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Social and Economic Phases of Birth Control
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Associated Press
Japan, Foreign Office
Japanese Government
American Birth Control League
Toyo Kisen Kaisha
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Kato, Shidzue Ishimoto
Akamatsu, Yusuke
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<h4>MRS. SANGER TO SAIL TOMORROW FOR FAR EAST</h4>
<p><span class="SFC">No matter what may be the views of the Japanese government on the
delicate subject of birth control, Mrs. Margaret Sanger, head of the Birth
Control League in the United States, has no intention of being deterred from
entering Japan on that account.</span></p>
<p><span class="SFC">Mrs. Sanger, who is visiting San Francisco, was much encouraged yesterday by an Associated Press
dispatch from Tokyo announcing that the Japanese government has no objection to her landing in the country provided
she does not attempt to disseminate her ideas.</span></p>
<div class="section">
<h4 class="sub-heading">Is Not Surprised</h4>
<p>"I am not surprised," <span class="SFC">she said.</span> "When the Japanese authorities here refused to vise my passport my
New York office at once got into communication with Tokyo>, and undoubtedly the
moderation of the official order has been brought about by pressure in the Japanese capital by the more liberal group there.
Well, I'm glad of it, and besides all this excitement about my not being permitted to land will stir interest in what I have to
say. That's good advertising."</p>
<p><span class="SFC">Mrs. Sanger will carry out her original intention, she said, and sail
for Japan aboard the T.K.K. liner Taiyo Maru tomorrow. She
will be the guest of Baroness
Ishimoto, leader of the brith control movement in Japan, while in
Toyko.</span></p>
<div class="section">
<h4 class="sub-heading">Overpopulation Big Problem</h4>
<p><span class="SFC">Birth control ought to result in Japan in a movement which will have an
important indirect bearing on world peace, in Mrs. Sanger's opinion.</span></p>
<p>"By helping to prevent overpopulation," <span class="SFC">she explained,</span> "birth
control will remove the immediate pressure which is one of the chief causes of
conflicts between nations. Japan's greatest problem is overpopulation."</p>
<p><span class="SFC">Yesterday's Associated Press dispatch from Tokyo pointed out that the
refusal to vise Mrs. Sanger's passport was on the ground that propaganda along
the line she proposed was illegal in Japan and an improper subject for public
discussion. Instructions sent here by the foreign office, however, were not to
be interpreted as meaning that she would be denied admission to the country.</span></p>
<div>
<div class="section">
<h4 class="sub-heading">To Forbid Lecture</h4>
<p><span class="SFC">Japan's intention, according to Yusuke Akamatsu,
chief of the immigration section of the foreign office, was to warn Mrs. Sanger
that she would not be permitted to lecture, and to forestall any complaint that
she did not know the Japanese attitude in advance.</span></p>
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1922-02-21
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<p>Sanger spoke to San Francisco reporters
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<span class="article">"Mrs. Sanger to Sail Tommorrow for Far East,"</span> <span class="journal"><span class="italics">San Fransisco Chronicle</span></span>, Feb. 21, 1922
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God
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California Hall
American Women's Independence Committee
International Neo-Malthusuan and Birth Control Conference, 5th
American Birth Control League
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Parson, Mary
Eisenhart, Katherine
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China
San Francisco, CA
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India,
England
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<div>
<h4>MRS. SANGER'S TALK GETS BY POLICE CENSORS</h4>
<p>"Birth control does not mean race suicide," <span class="SFC">declared Margaret Sanger, head of the
Birth Control league, in an address yesterday
afternoon before an audience in California hall.</span> "Scientific birth control has already operated
in a number of countries such as Holland,
New Zealand and others, for sufficient time to demonstrate that
instead of race suicide the percentage of infant survivals has been greatly
increased with a better type and class of manhood and a decrease in population."</p>
<p><span class="SFC">The speaker traced the history of birth control, maintaining that it was
not a new idea. She said it was, in fact, one of nature's fundamental laws, as
is the natural course of events without the interference of science, nature will
weed out the sick, the old and feeble and the diseased to make room for the
strong and healthy.</span></p>
<div class="section">
<h4 class="sub-heading">Describes Two Groups</h4>
<p><span class="SFC">Mrs. Sanger declared that the human race has divided broadly into two
classes, the large family group and the small family group. She insisted that in
the latter group are to be found culture, leisure, wealth and two or three
children, who are brought up under the best conditions, sent to universities and
given every advantage in life. In the large family group, according to the
speaker, are found poverty, misery, the tenement life, infant and maternal
mortality and the breeding place of all today's vital sociological
problems.</span></p>
<p>"Yet it is from the former group that the greatest clamor comes against giving to the
latter group the information which allows the small family group to be what it is,"
<span class="SFC">said the speaker.</span></p>
<div class="section">
<h4 class="sub-heading">Defends Birth Control</h4>
<p>"Not only do we want to protect society from further propagation of the sick and
insane," <span class="SFC">said Mrs. Sanger,</span> "but we want to make motherhood a conscious and voluntary
act, giving her a chance to develop her own indviduality and that of her
children."</p>
<p>"You have been told that birth control is against the laws of God.
I say to you that if you, as an indivudal, believe in God as a divine intelligence who has endowed you
with the power to think and to reason, then you certainly are at liberty to apply that intelligence according to the dictates of
your conscience."</p>
<p>"Every advance in science has been attacked in this same manner. It is against the
laws of nature for a man to shave, to cut his hair, to walk on two legs instead of
four, to ride in street cars, or to submit to an operation to save his life, just as
much as it is against those laws for him to practice birth control," <span class="SFC">said the speaker.</span></p>
<div class="section">
<h4 class="sub-heading">Wants Scientific Clinics</h4>
<p>"What we need at present is scientific clinics at which the fundamentals of birth
control can be taught. We should get away from the backyard gossip and through the
<span class="unclear">clinic</span> bring to the poor woman who cannot afford to pay for
it under the present conditions the same information that the rich woman gets
today."</p>
<p><span class="SFC">The speaker denied that birth control would result in race suicide. She
maintained that the maternal instinct is so great in women that they will
perform the sacred duty of bearing and rearing children, but that with control
an established fact the work will be done under conditions which are best for
both mother and child.</span></p>
<p><span class="SFC">Mrs. Sanger told of being excluded from Japan, but
expressed the hope that this ban would eventually be lifted. She emphasized the
need of the doctrine in Japan, saying,</span></p>
<p>"When the pressure of population gets too great in any country there can be but two
ways of relief. One is war, with its attendant loss of life and possible increase in
territory in the case of the victor and the other is through scientific birth
control. Of the two, I believe that the latter is by far the better way."</p>
<div class="section">
<h4 class="sub-heading">Will Go to England</h4>
<p><span class="SFC">The speaker said that she will continue her journey to the Orient,
lecturing in China and India, and going on to England,
where she will attend an international conference on birth control.</span></p>
<p><span class="SFC"> Mrs. Mary Parson acted as chairman
of the meeting, introducing the speaker. During the questioning which followed
the regular lecture a woman in the audience asked,</span> "<span class="UNK">is there
any book now published which gives inside information on birth control?"</span></p>
<p><span class="SFC">Mrs. Sanger smiled and, nodding toward the door of the hall,
answered,</span> "There are two policemen standing at the door who would be very
glad to know the answer to that question."</p>
<p><span class="SFC">A detail of plain clothes offiers was present at the meeting. Mrs. Katherine Eisenhart
was a member of the detail. No action was taken by the officers to stop the lecture or to
prevent the distribution of pamphlets, which were given out at the door.</span></p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
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Margaret Sanger
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1922-02-19
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<p>Sanger spoke before 1200 people in a mass meeting sponsored by American Women's Independence Committee at
California Hall in San Francisco. 625 Polk Street 94102.</p>
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<span class="article">"Mrs. Sanger's Talk Gets By Police Censors,"</span> <span class="newspaper"><span class="italics">San Francisco Chronicle</span></span>, Feb. 19, 1922, p. 3
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[The Necessity for Birth Control in the United States]
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Published speech