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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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Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

Margaret Sanger

Margaret Sanger (1879–1966), U.S. birth control advocate. My Fight for Birth Control, ch. 1 (1931).

Sanger, one of eleven children in a financially stressed family, became the first prominent advocate of birth control and of the dissemination (then illegal) of birth control information.

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