Quotation by Margaret Sanger

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"Coitus Interruptus" Family Limitation (1914)My Fight for Birth Control (1931)My Fight for Birth Control 1931 quoted in Parade (New York, Dec. 1, 1963)

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Shall we who have heard the cries and seen the agony of dying women respect the law which has caused their deaths? Shall we watch in patience the murdering of 25,000 women each year in the Untied States from criminal abortions? Shall we fold our hands and wait until a body of sleek and well-fed politicians get ready to abolish the cause of such slaughter?

Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger (1879–1966), U.S. birth control rights activist. My Fight for Birth Control, ch. 6 (1931).

From an editorial published in her pro-birth control magazine, The Woman Rebel. She was at the time facing trial for publishing and distributing the magazine, which was defined as "obscene."

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