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Quotation by Margaret Sanger
... an abortion is only horrible, but to deny life is satanic. Why then, I wonder, do priests and nuns remain unmarried? Why then are celibacy and self-control approved and exacted? What a priceless ideal for mothers to follow! To continue bearing children misshapen, deformed, hideous to the eyes, in the hope that Heaven may be filled! It's a monstrous doctrine, abhorrent of every civilized instinct in us.
Margaret Sanger (1879–1966), U.S. birth control advocate. My Fight for Birth Control, ch. 17 (1931).
On the Roman Catholic Church's opposition to birth control and abortion.
On the Roman Catholic Church's opposition to birth control and abortion.
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