This is the first article in an 12-part series. For Part II, "Girlhood, 1," see Nov. 24, 1912, for Part III, "Girlhood, 2," see Dec. 1, 1912, for Part IV, "Puberty, 1," see Dec. 8, 1912, for Part V,"Puberty 2," see Dec. 15, 1912, for Part VI "Sexual…
Originally scheduled to be delivered at the close of the First American Birth
Control Conference on Nov. 13, 1921, this address was made on Nov. 18 after the police raided the Town Hall
and arrested Sanger. This speech was…
This article was reprinted by the American Birth Control League in a flyer
with two other newspaper articles as "Real Facts About Birth
Control," ca. April 1923 (Margaret Sanger Papers Microfim,Library of Congress LCM 129:580).
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.