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Title
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Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm Edition, Smith College Collections
Description
An account of the resource
Letters, writings, diaries, photographs and other papers written by, sent to, or collected by Margaret Sanger
Source
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Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College
Publisher
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Microfilmed and published by University Publications of America, a subsidiary of Proquest.
Text
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Law
Connecticut State Criminal Code, Section 6246
Organization
Hartford Branch of the Connecticut Birth Control League
Wesleyan University
United States Congress
Person
Wells, H. G.
Chamberlain, Roy B.
Terhune, William B.
Hugo, Victor
Harris, Erdman
Shaw, George Bernard
Campbell, Clarence G.
Cooper, John M.
Place
Wesleyan, CT
Middletown, CT
New York
Connecticut
Text
Any textual data included in the document
<div>
<p class="dateline">Wesleyan Dec 12/32</p>
<div>
<p>Victor Hugo–- "<span class="HUGVI">No force in the world so great as that of an idea whose hour has struck."</span></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The most intelligent English opinion of Church & the professions have claimed itto be of <span class="addition">immediate</span> importance in solving the Social & Economic problems of the world.</p>
<p>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<span class="addition">future</span> development of women & the spiritual progress of the race.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The emphasis is placed on control & not on limitation.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Birth Control will prevent children from being born to become <span class="underline">buffers</span> 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.</p>
<p>There are seven <span class="addition">obvious</span> reasons to practice birth control</p>
<p>1st When ever either man or woman has a transmissible disease. Insanity, feeblemindedness, epilepsy etc.</p>
<p>2nd. When the woman has any disease in which pregnancy complicates the cure such a stuberculosis, heart or kidney diseases.</p>
<p>3rd- When parents tho apparently normal have already produced subnormal or defective children, deaf mutes, cleft palates, mental <span class="unclear">defectives</span>.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>5<span class="underline">th</span>. Birth control should be practiced until often the adolescent period is passed–-even tho’ early marriage is advised or counselled.</p>
<p>6<span class="underline">th</span> BC should be practiced for economic reasons-–parents should not have more children than they can decently provide for.</p>
<p>7<span class="underline">th</span>. 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 <span class="line-through">interests</span> play & cultural interests.</p>
<p>There are Three ways to control the birth rate or the size of the family.</p>
<p>1 Continence</p>
<p>2 Sterilization</p>
<p>3 Chemical or mechanical means of preventing conception.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>The Medical Profession</strong></p>
</div>
<div>
<p>Conn. State law Sec 6246 makes it a crime for any one to <span class="underline">use</span> any <span class="line-through">drug </span><span class="addition">chemical or mechanical</span> for the purpose of preventing conception.</p>
<p>Fed law Sec 211. Prevents Physicians or anyone from using the US mails or Common carriers <span class="line-through">to</span> in purchasing books, literature, supplies Conn State law is unique in <span class="line-through">its </span>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 “<span class="CSL">offences against Humanity and Morality.</span>”</p>
</div>
<div>
<p>Additional quotes taken from "Mrs. Sanger Says State's Law 'Stupid':"</p>
<p>"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. . . ."</p>
<p><span class="HC">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.</span> "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. . . . "</p>
<p><span class="HC">Mrs. Sanger expressed amazement over the fact that Connecticut, </span>"with more colleges and universities than any other state<span class="HC">," and therefore the most intelligent, should have the</span> "stupidist" <span class="HC">laws concerning the dissemination of birth control information.</span> "How can a law that says it is a crime for anyone to use contraceptive devices be enforced?" <span class="HC">she asked. Mrs. Sanger said that while New York State Law is almost as</span> "stupid," <span class="HC">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.</span></p>
<p>"No person,"<span class="HC"> Mrs. Sanger declared, </span>"has a right to bring children into the world when he cannot provide for them." <span class="HC">She concluded with a brief discussion of the three ways of limiting the size of families, continence, sterilization, and contraception.</span></p>
</div>
</div>
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Wells, H. G.
Hartford Courant
Connecticut State Law
Hugo, Victor
Shaw, George Bernard
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Margaret Sanger
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Wesleyan, CT
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1932-12-12
Description
An account of the resource
<p>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 "<span class="article">Mrs. Sanger Says State Law 'Stupid'</span>," <em><span class="newspaper"><span class="italics">Hartford Courant </span></span></em><span class="newspaper"><span class="italics">(CT)</span></span>, 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.</p>
Identifier
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msp#236563
Source
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<span class="mf">Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm Edition, Smith College Collections,</span> S71:432
Subject
The topic of the resource
birth control--definitions of
birth control--health benefits and risks
birth control--economic benefits and risks of
Connecticut--birth control--laws and legislation
Title
A name given to the resource
Wesleyan University Speech Notes
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Autograph draft speech
-
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
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Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm Edition, Smith College Collections
Description
An account of the resource
Letters, writings, diaries, photographs and other papers written by, sent to, or collected by Margaret Sanger
Source
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Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Microfilmed and published by University Publications of America, a subsidiary of Proquest.
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Law
Connecticut State Criminal Code, Section 6246
United States Criminal Code, Section 211
Organization
Hartford Branch of the Connecticut Birth Control League
Wesleyan University
Person
Wells, H. G.
Chamberlain, Roy B.
Terhune, William B.
Hugo, Victor
Harris, Erdman
Shaw, George Bernard
Campbell, Clarence G.
Cooper, John M.
Place
Wesleyan, CT
Middletown, CT
Connecticut
Text
Any textual data included in the document
<div>
<p class="dateline">Westleyan Dec 12/32</p>
<div>
<p>Victor Hugo–- <span class="HUGVI">No force in theworld so great as that of an idea whose hour has struck.</span> 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>G B Shaw says it’s the <span class="SHAGE">most revolutionary idea of the present century </span>H G. Wells says <span class="WELHG">it’s the most momentous fact of modern life.</span></p>
<p>The most intelligent English opinion of Church & the professions have claimed itto be of <span class="addition">immediate</span> importance in solving the Social & Economic problems of the world.</p>
<p>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 <span class="addition">future</span> 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.</p>
<p>The emphasis is placed on control & not on limitation.</p>
<p>It is also placed on conscious control instead of the reckless abandon to the momen twith children the result. (haphazard &, accidental conceptions).</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Birth Control will prevent children from being born to become <span class="underline">buffers</span> 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.</p>
<p>There are seven <span class="addition">obvious</span> reasons to practice birth control</p>
<p>1st When ever either man or woman has a transmissible disease. Insanity, feeblemindedness, epilepsy etc.</p>
<p>2nd. When the woman has any disease in which pregnancy complicates the cure such as tuberculosis, heart or kidney diseases.</p>
<p>3rd. When parents tho apparently normal have already produced subnormal or defective children, deaf mutes, cleft palates, mental defectives.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>5<span class="underline">th</span>. Birth control should be practiced until often the adolescent period is passed– even tho’ early marriage is advised or counselled.</p>
<p>6<span class="underline">th</span> BC should be practiced for economic reasons–-parents should not have more children than they can decently provide for.</p>
<p>7<span class="underline">th</span>. 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 <span class="line-through">interests</span> play & cultural interests.</p>
<p>There are Three ways to control the birth rate or the size of the family.</p>
<p>1 Continence</p>
<p>2 Sterilization</p>
<p>3 Chemical or mechanical means of preventing conception.</p>
<p>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.</p>
</div>
<div>
<p>The Medical Profession</p>
<p><span class="addition">Conn.</span> State lawSec 6246 makes it a crime for any one to <span class="underline">use</span> any <span class="line-through">drug</span> <span class="addition">chemical or mechanism</span> for the purpose of preventing conception.</p>
<p>Fed law Sec 211 prevents Physicians or anyone from using the US mails or common carriers <span class="line-through">to</span> in purchasing books, literature, supplies.</p>
<p>Conn State law is unique in <span class="line-through">its</span> that it stands alone in the 48 States as an example of <span class="underline">bad</span> law which can not be enforced–- & insults the intelligence of its citizens by classing this law as <q>"offences against Humanity and Morality.”</q></p>
</div>
</div>
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Wells, H. G.
Hartford Courant
Connecticut State Law
Hugo, Victor
Shaw, George Bernard
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Margaret Sanger
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Wesleyan, CT
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1932-12-12
Description
An account of the resource
<p>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.</p>
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
msp#236563
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<span class="mf">Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm Edition, Smith College Collections,</span> S71:432
Subject
The topic of the resource
birth control--definitions of
birth control--health benefits and risks
birth control--socio-economic benefits
birth control laws and legislation--Federal
birth control laws and legislation--state
child spacing
Connecticut--birth control laws
family size
unfit to reproduce--definitions of
Title
A name given to the resource
Wesleyan University Speech Notes and Excerpts
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Autograph draft speech
-
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm Edition, Smith College Collections
Description
An account of the resource
Letters, writings, diaries, photographs and other papers written by, sent to, or collected by Margaret Sanger
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Microfilmed and published by University Publications of America, a subsidiary of Proquest.
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Law
Connecticut State Criminal Code, Section 6246
Organization
Hartford Branch of the Connecticut Birth Control League
Wesleyan University
United States Congress
Person
Shaw, George Bernard
Chamberlain, Roy B.
Hugo, Victor
Cooper, John M.
Campbell, Clarence G.
Wells, H. G.
Terhune, William B.
Harris, Erdman
Place
New York
Connecticut
Wesleyan, CT
Middletown, CT
Text
Any textual data included in the document
<div>
<p class="dateline">Westleyan Dec 12/32</p>
<div>
<p>Victor Hugo–- <span class="HUGVI">No force in the world so great as that of an idea whose hour has struck.</span></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>G B Shaw says its the most revolutionary idea of the present century. HG. Wells says its the most momentous fact of modern life.</p>
<p>The most intelligent English opinion of Church & the professions have claimed it to be of <span class="addition">immediate</span> importance in solving the Social & Economic problems of the world.</p>
<p>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 <span class="addition">future</span> development of women & the spiritual progress of the race.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The emphasis is placed on control & not on limitation.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Birth Control will prevent children from being born to become <span class="underline">buffers</span> 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.</p>
<p>There are seven <span class="addition">obvious</span> reasons to practice birth control</p>
<p>1st When ever either man or woman has a transmissible disease. Insanity, feeblemindedness, epilepsy etc.</p>
<p>2nd. When the woman has any disease in which pregnancy complicates the cure such as tuberculosis, heart or kidney diseases.</p>
<p>3rd- When parents tho apparently normal have already produced subnormal or defective children, deaf mutes, cleft palates, mental <span class="unclear">defectives</span>.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>5<span class="underline">th</span>. Birth control should be practiced until often the adolescent period is passed– even tho’ early marriage is advised or counselled.</p>
<p>6<span class="underline">th</span> BC should be practiced for economic reasons– parents should not have more children than they can decently provide for.</p>
<p>7<span class="underline">th</span>. 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 <span class="line-through">interests</span> play & cultural interests.</p>
<p>There are Three ways to control the birth rate or the size of the family.</p>
<p>1 Continence</p>
<p>2 Sterilization</p>
<p>3 Chemical or mechanical means of preventing conception.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The Medical Profession</p>
</div>
<div>
<p>Conn. State law Sec 6246 makes it a crime for any one to <span class="underline">use</span> any <span class="line-through">drug</span> <span class="addition">chemical or mechanical</span> for the purpose of preventing conception.</p>
<p>Fed law Sec 211. Prevents Physicians or anyone from using the US mails or Common carriers <span class="line-through">to</span> in purchasing books, literature, supplies Conn State law is unique in <span class="line-through">its</span> 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 “<span class="CSL">offences against Humanity and Morality.</span>”</p>
</div>
<div>
<p>Additional quotes taken from "Mrs. Sanger Says State's Law 'Stupid':</p>
<p>"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. . ."</p>
<p><span class="HC">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.</span> "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... "</p>
<p><span class="HC">Mrs. Sanger expressed amazement over the fact that Connecticut, </span>"with more colleges and universities than any other state<span class="HC">," and therefore the most intelligent, should have the</span> "stupidist" <span class="HC">laws concerning the dissemination of birth control information.</span> "How can a law that says it is a crime for anyone to use contraceptive devices be enforced? <span class="HC">she asked. Mrs. Sanger said that while New York State Law is almost as</span> "stupid," <span class="HC">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.</span></p>
<p>"No person,"<span class="HC"> Mrs. Sanger declared, </span>"has a right to bring children into the world when he cannot provide for them." <span class="HC">She concluded with a brief discussion of the three ways of limiting the size of families, continence, sterilization, and contraception.</span></p>
</div>
</div>
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Shaw, George Bernard
Connecticut State Law
Hugo, Victor
Wells, H. G.
Hartford Courant
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Margaret Sanger
Spatial Coverage
Spatial characteristics of the resource.
Wesleyan, CT
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1932-12-12
Description
An account of the resource
<p>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 "<span class="article">Mrs. Sanger Says State Law 'Stupid'</span>," <em><span class="newspaper"><span class="italics">Hartford Courant</span></span></em>, 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.</p>
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
msp#236563
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<span class="mf">Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm Edition, Smith College Collections,</span> S71:432
Subject
The topic of the resource
birth control--definitions of
birth control--health benefits and risks
birth control--economic benefits and risks of
Connecticut--birth control--laws and legislation
Title
A name given to the resource
Wesleyan University Speech Notes
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Autograph draft speech
-
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm Edition, Smith College Collections
Description
An account of the resource
Letters, writings, diaries, photographs and other papers written by, sent to, or collected by Margaret Sanger
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Microfilmed and published by University Publications of America, a subsidiary of Proquest.
Text
A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text.
Law
United States Criminal Code, Section 211
Connecticut State Criminal Code, Section 6246
Organization
Hartford Branch of the Connecticut Birth Control League
Wesleyan University
Person
Shaw, George Bernard
Chamberlain, Roy B.
Hugo, Victor
Cooper, John M.
Campbell, Clarence G.
Wells, H. G.
Terhune, William B.
Harris, Erdman
Place
Connecticut
Wesleyan, CT
Middletown, CT
Text
Any textual data included in the document
<div>
<p class="dateline">Westleyan Dec 12/32</p>
<div>
<p>Victor Hugo–- <span class="HUGVI">No force in the world so great as that of an idea whose hour has struck.</span> 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>G B Shaw says it’s the <span class="SHAGE">most revolutionary idea of the present century</span> HG. Wells says <span class="WELHG">it’s the most momentous fact of modern life.</span></p>
<p>The most intelligent English opinion of Church & the professions have claimed it to be of <span class="addition">immediate</span> importance in solving the Social & Economic problems of the world.</p>
<p>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 <span class="addition">future</span> 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.</p>
<p>The emphasis is placed on control & not on limitation.</p>
<p>It is also placed on conscious control instead of the reckless abandon to the moment with children the result. (haphazard &, accidental conceptions).</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Birth Control will prevent children from being born to become <span class="underline">buffers</span> 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.</p>
<p>There are seven <span class="addition">obvious</span> reasons to practice birth control</p>
<p>1st When ever either man or woman has a transmissible disease. Insanity, feeblemindedness, epilepsy etc.</p>
<p>2nd. When the woman has any disease in which pregnancy complicates the cure such as tuberculosis, heart or kidney diseases.</p>
<p>3rd. When parents tho apparently normal have already produced subnormal or defective children, deaf mutes, cleft palates, mental defectives.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>5<span class="underline">th</span>. Birth control should be practiced until often the adolescent period is passed– even tho’ early marriage is advised or counselled.</p>
<p>6<span class="underline">th</span> BC should be practiced for economic reasons–-parents should not have more children than they can decently provide for.</p>
<p>7<span class="underline">th</span>. 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 <span class="line-through">interests</span> play & cultural interests.</p>
<p>There are Three ways to control the birth rate or the size of the family.</p>
<p>1 Continence</p>
<p>2 Sterilization</p>
<p>3 Chemical or mechanical means of preventing conception.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<p>The Medical Profession</p>
<p><span class="addition">Conn.</span> State law Sec 6246 makes it a crime for any one to <span class="underline">use</span> any <span class="line-through">drug</span> <span class="addition">chemical or mechanism</span> for the purpose of preventing conception.</p>
<p>Fed law Sec 211 prevents Physicians or anyone from using the US mails or common carriers <span class="line-through">to</span> in purchasing books, literature, supplies.</p>
<p>Conn State law is unique in <span class="line-through">its</span> that it stands alone in the 48 States as an example of <span class="underline">bad</span> law which can not be enforced–- & insults the intelligence of its citizens by classing this law as <q>"offences against Humanity and Morality.”</q></p>
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Shaw, George Bernard
Connecticut State Law
Hugo, Victor
Wells, H. G.
Hartford Courant
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Margaret Sanger
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Wesleyan, CT
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1932-12-12
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<p>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.</p>
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msp#236563
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<span class="mf">Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm Edition, Smith College Collections,</span> S71:432
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birth control--definitions of
birth control--health benefits and risks
birth control--socio-economic benefits
birth control laws and legislation--Federal
birth control laws and legislation--state
child spacing
Connecticut--birth control laws
family size
unfit to reproduce--definitions of
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Wesleyan University Speech Notes and Excerpts
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Autograph draft speech