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Des Moines General Federation of Women's Clubs
Place
Des Moines, IA
Iowa
Des Moine, Iowa
United States
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<h4>Mrs. Sanger Say Women Are Slaves; Knowledge Barred</h4>
<p class="dateline">
Des Moines, Jan.
28--</p>
<p>"We who advocate the dissemination of such knowledge do not say there should be no
children, nor do we desire to regulate the number any family should have. But we do say
that parents should give to their children a sound heritage, a sound body, and a sound
mind. We do say that the epileptic, the insane, the feeble minded, should have no
offspring. We do say no to the temporarily or permanently diseased. And, too, we do say
that the coming of children should be properly spaced out, not one every year, so common
in hundreds of families, but not oftener than once in three or four years, so that the
mother can properly recover from previous child birth."</p>
<p>"Millions of the women of the United States are in deeper and more
dreadful slavery than the negroes of the south, because the distribution of sound,
sensible, scientific knowledge of birth control is forbidden. Yet the church and the
state neglect them--yes, even cry out against their freedom from the haunting specter
over them."</p>
<p><span class="WEC">That was the declaration of Mrs. Margaret Sanger, noted birth control
advocate, in an address before the Des Moines Federation of Women's Clubs
at Hoyt Sherman place auditorium yesterday afternoon. The largest audience which has
attended a meeting of the federation heard Mrs. Sanger's plea for "Regulation of the
Fit Children of the World."</span></p>
<p>"This continued refusal to allow the distribution of contraceptive knowledge is the
greatest waste of physical and economic vitality the nation permits. It fills our
insane, feeble-minded, epileptic and charitable institutions, it causes inconceivable
suffering to thousands of women and children who cry out for a fair chance to live as
normal beings, and we are paying for the ignorance we are bringing upon the nation in
high infant and maternal mortality, child labor, disease and poverty."</p>
<p>"Iowa and the United States," <span class="WEC">Mrs. Sanger declared,</span> "must
attack the great social problems at their roots by preventing the propagation of the
insane, the feeble minded, the epileptic, the diseased and other dependents on the
state, or social chaos is imminent." </p>
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Waterloo Evening Courier
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Margaret Sanger
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Des Moines, IA
Date
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1925-01-27
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<p>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.</p>
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msp#421032
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<span class="article">"Mrs. Sanger Says Women Are Slaves; Knowledge Barred,"</span>
<span class="newspaper"><span class="italics">Waterloo (Iowa) Evening Courier</span></span>, Jan. 28, 1925
Subject
The topic of the resource
birth control--lack of knowledge of
birth control--opposition to
birth control--socio-economic benefits
child spacing
mentally diseased or disabled--as social burdens
mentally diseased or disabled--unfit to reproduce
unfit to reproduce--definitions of
women and girls--enslavement of
Title
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[Regulation of Fit Children of the World]
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Published speech
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Law
United States Penal Code, Section 211
Person
Epicletus (Greek)
Malthus, Thomas Robert
Dillingham, Della (fictional)
Hugo, Victor
Sutherland, Alexander
Place
Vienna, Austria
Dallas, TX
China
Chicago, IL
Denver, CO
Milwaukee, WI
Iowa
Milwaukee, WI Open Forum
United States
Athens, Greece
Netherlands, the
Mexico
England
India
Publication
Origin & Growth of Moral Instinct
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<p class="dateline">
MilwaukeeNov. 6--1923</p>
<p>Victor Hugo says "<span class="HUGVI">There is no force in
the world like that <span class="underline">of an idea</span> whose hour has
come.</span>"</p>
<p>B.C has come to solve mothers <span class="addition">conflict</span>. Intelligence viz reproduction} all
lower species as they ascend scale evolution & become more intelligent. Cease to
reproduce so abundantly.</p>
<p><span class="underline">Responsible</span> parenthood sign of intelligence.</p>
<p>Excessive Races could not wait so infanticide & abortion prevailed Savagery,
Barbarism & Early Civilization.</p>
<p>Sutherlands remarks on <span class="book"> Origin & Growth of Moral Instinct</span>.
<span class="underline">Read</span> <span class="addition">Well to do few children.</span> This for the biological aspect! Now for the racial,
Social & Individual.</p>
<p><span class="addition"><span class="underline">Conflict</span></span> <span class="line-through">Population</span> <span class="addition">reproduction</span> viz subsistence}
Malthus theory constant pressure of population against means--subsistence.</p>
<p>population 2, 48, 16, 32, 64</p>
<p>food 2, 4, 6, 8, 10</p>
<p>Malthus lived in a world with no telephone, telegraph, locomotive, steam boats or motor cars could not foresee improvements--nor
doubled populationb birth rate has lowered--population increased.</p>
<p></p><ul>
<li>50% interest on $1000 or 2% on 1,000,000</li>
<li>Small population</li>
<li>U.S.A.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>old countries overcrowded</li>
<li>China, India
</li>
</ul>
<p>Whole world overcrowded double population last century} intelligence social &
economic systems equipment, houses, schools, poverty, ignorance, slums disease, wars.</p>
<p>Malthus advocated late marriage & continence. <span class="underline">B.C.</span> Organization advocate early
marriage & knowledge.</p>
<p><span class="underline">conscious</span> control birth rate--not abortion nor infanticide.</p>
<p>Individual problem--} health economic racial</p>
<p>4 critical stages adult life</p>
<p>
</p><ul>
<li>1 adolescent--14-22--building, storing <span class="addition">money in bank</span>, energizing</li>
<li>2 marriage, love life--adjustment, magnetizing, <span class="unclear">interesting</span></li>
<li>3 motherhood, child life, sympathetic--</li>
<li>4 menopause reflective, spiritualizing--</li>
</ul>
<p>B.C. will help adolescent live clean lives, early marriage.</p>
<p>Married life}
</p><ul>
<li>love life, 2 years, play, read, cultural--</li>
<li>Child life--conceived love, space babies, 4 children.</li>
</ul>
<p>B.C. <span class="underline">pivot</span> married happiness.</p>
<p>Causes for unhappiness in marriage} health or disease--
maturity flirt, giddy--</p>
<p>
</p><ul>
<li>Too early pregnancy,</li>
<li>too frequent pregnancy,</li>
<li>fear of pregnancy}</li>
</ul>
<p>Mans ignorance in art of love}
</p><ul>
<li>woman's nature & eccentricities.</li>
<li>pregnancy & disturbing influences.</li>
<li>anxiety, sex cures, frigidity--</li>
</ul>
<p>Orangutang & a violin. meeting for men only</p>
<p>Mans nature simple & direct</p>
<p>Woman's complex. Clinics to help</p>
<p>3 kinds of B.C.}
</p><ul>
<li>continence</li>
<li>sterilization</li>
<li>mechanicl contraceptives</li>
</ul>
<p>When <span class="underline">not</span> to <span class="underline">have</span> children.</p>
<p>Epicletus said of Athens
"<span class="EPICL">The spring time went out of her years</span>."</p>
<p>58,432 letters, what do they ask? Church, Society, Science no place for her. Push her back into <span class="unclear">mire</span>.</p>
<p>Della's story Chicago
<span class="underline">men helped</span>.</p>
<p>Can b.c help these women} Chicago case high grade imbecile.</p>
<p>Western States Clinics-- Federal law <span class="underline">Chicago,</span>
<span class="underline">Denver</span>, Holland,
Mexico China, England
Vienna <span class="addition">Iowa
Dallas</span></p>
<p>Womens enslavement} upon fruits of her womb has all been founded--}
</p><ul>
<li>armies</li>
<li>navies</li>
<li>kingdoms</li>
<li>Oligarchies</li>
<li>Democracies--</li>
</ul>
<p>She has made life cheap. Children by chance--now by choice, perfect bodies--beautiful as can be made. Temples of the Soul and a perfect instrument for
its use during its journey throughout <span class="addition">its various</span> stages <span class="addition">vicissitudes</span>
of material existence. <span class="addition">development</span></p>
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Epicletus
Hugo, Victor
Creator
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Margaret Sanger
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Milwaukee, WI
Date
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1923-11-06
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<p>Sanger used these notes for a speech she gave to the Milwaukee, WI Open Forum on November 6, 1923.</p>
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msp#236371
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<span class="mf">Margaret Sanger Microfilm Edition, Smith College Collections,</span>
S70:1023
Subject
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birth control--socio-economic benefits
birth control methods
Malthusianism--and neo-Malthusianism
Title
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[Milwaukee Open Forum Speech Notes]
Type
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Autograph draft speech