Testimony Before the United States Senate on Senate Bill 4436
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<p>This excerpt from the complete hearings includes only Margaret Sanger's testimony and questions asked of her. <br /><br />For continued testimony on this bill, see Testimony before the United States Senate on bill S. 4436 June 24 and 30, 1932.<br /><br />For additional comments made by Sanger, see Comments at Senate Testimony for S. 4436, May 12, 1932.</p>
Margaret Sanger
<span class="testimony">Birth Control: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Seventy-second Congress, First Session on S. 4436. A Bill to Amend Section 305 (A) of the Tariff Act of 1930 and Sections 211,245, and 312 of the Criminal Code, as Amended</span> May 12, 19, and 20, 1932, pp. 6-11, and 135-43
<span class="mf">Margaret Sanger Microfilm Edition, Collected Documents Series,</span> C15:797
1932-05-12
Hastings, Daniel
Austin, Warren R.
Butler, Lily
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White House Conference on Child Health and Protection
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Social and Economic Phases of Birth Control
<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>
Margaret Sanger
<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.
1922-02-21
San Francisco Chronicle
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[Statement on Release from Prison]
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<p>Sanger spoke and answered questions at a luncheon at the Hotel Lafayette
immediately after being released from Queens County Penitentiary.</p>
Margaret Sanger
<span class="article">"Mrs. Sanger Out After Balking at Fingerprints,"</span>
<span class="newspaper"><span class="italics">New York Call,</span></span> Mar. 7, 1917
1917-03-07
NY Call
Halpern, Rose
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