Sanger gave this speech before the General Federation of Women's
Clubs in Des Moines. The speech was not found. For notes from another speech
she gave during this trip, see Des Moines Address Notes,
Jan. 26, 1925.
Margaret Sanger gave this speech to open the Sixth
International Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference at the Hotel
McAlpin in New York City. For a draft
version see Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm, Library of Congress, LCM 128:267.
This article is prefaced by an editorial note mentioning that Dr. Louis I. Dublin argued the
negative side of the question in the April 25, 1925 issue of Colliers.