The Case for birth control
THE CASE FOR BIRTH CONTROL, is to give
the Court a clear conception of the meaning of birth
control.THE CASE FOR BIRTH CONTROL, is to give
the Court a clear conception of the meaning of birth
control.THE CASE FOR BIRTH CONTROL, is to give
the Court a clear conception of the meaning of birth
control.THE CASE FOR BIRTH CONTROL, is to give
the Court a clear conception of the meaning of birth
control.THE CASE FOR BIRTH CONTROL, is to give
the Court a clear conception of the meaning of birth
control.Prepared by Margaret H. Sanger, and published in 1917, the Case for Birth control was written to give the Court a clear conception of the meaning of birth control, and aid it in its consideration of the statute designed to prevent the dissemination of information for preventing conception.
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Transcription of Goldman's letter to Margaret Sanger
Goldman was Sanger's mentor; she brought Sanger into the campaign against the 1873 Comstock Law which prohibited the distribution of birth control literature. By 1915, she was working with Sanger in a mass movement for birth control, lecturing frequently on "the right of the child not to be born" and demanding that women's bodies be freed from the coercion of government. In 1914, Margaret Sanger was arrested for publishing information about birth control in her magazine Woman Rebel. While awaiting trial, she fled to Europe for a year. Upon her return, Goldman learned that Sanger was under pressure to plead guilty as a means of securing a lighter sentence. Goldman advised Sanger against plea bargaining and encouraged her to approach the trial as an occasion to mobilize support for the birth control movement.
To Margaret Sanger
[St. Louis] Dec 8. [1915]
My dear
I wrote you a long letter from Chicago yester day. To day I heard that our good friends Schroeder & others are urging you to plead guilty.
That would be too awful Just kill the movement you have helped to advance in 50 years I hope you will do no such a thing. That you will be as brave as you have so far
Dear dear Girl, I appreciate your state of mind I feel deeply all you have gone through since you began your work. But at the same time I feel that it would be a great impardonable error were you now throw allow yourself to be beaten. To compromise when there is no need of it.
You have friends all over the country You can have what ever means will be needed to fight. You have aroused the interest, as no one ever has Think of losing it all by declaring yourself guilty. Don't do it
I have a suggestion to make to you. Hold out until I come back the 23 rd of this month Then go away with me for 2 weeks to Lakewood or some place. I am terribly tired and need a rest We'd both gain much and I would help you find yourself
What do you think to this? Let me know But in any event don't decide right now what you want to do about your case, don't.
Write me Gen Del Indianapolis Ind With love. E G
Interview Margaret Sanger gave to Mike Wallace in 1957
During the interview, Sanger talked to Mike Wallace about why she became an advocate for birth control, including topics of over-population, the Catholic Church, religion, divorce, and morality.
United States v. Emma Goldman
Text of Emma Goldman's address to the jury, delivered during her anti-conscription trial, New York City, July 9, 1917.