Birth control laws : $b shall we keep them, change them, or abolish themDennett, Mary Ware
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Birth control laws : $b shall we keep them, change them, or abolish them
Dennett, Mary Ware
Birth control; Birth control -- Law and legislation -- United States
I was just reading a book called the Sex Searchlights and Sane Sex
Ethics, and in this book I found your address and seeing that you
will give people information on the topic you have in this book,
about helping people to keep from becoming mothers. If they increase
too rapidly. My case isn’t this. I have a little boy and the doctors
tell me not to have any more or I will not be here any longer. I
asked them how I was going to prevent this. All they said was find
out. My baby was taken with instruments and I was between life and
death.
Hoping you will send me information on this topic at once,
Yours truly,
____.
MY DEAR FRIENDS:
Will you please tell me some simple remidy to prevent conception. I
am the mother of 6 children and soon to become the mother of another.
It is sapping my life and breaking down my health. If you cannot give
the information please tell me where I can get the information.
Yours truly,
____.
MY DEAR MRS. DENNETT:
All of the literature received by me from the V. P. L. strikes an
answering chord in my heart. I had so hoped that the Federal bill
would be passed early enough for me to get and pass on the much
needed information to the rural mothers, who are being broken down by
child bearing and hard work.
As a Graduate Midwife delivering eight or ten babies a year, in the
course of my Public Health work I realize more than most nurses the
pressing need of contraceptive information. I came to this work June
1st, 1918, and am leaving March 1st of this year because the doctor
has told me I ought not to finish out this year if I’m to keep my own
health.
In these four years I have delivered six mothers of two children a
piece and one mother of four, twins the 1st June, 1918 and one Oct.,
1919, the fourth Feb., 1921. This woman is 23 years old and the
mother of six children. Naturally she is already breaking down and
the children can’t get proper care. It is pitiful! There are three
other women who have borne children so rapidly that they are on the
verge of physical or nervous break down. If I send them to their
family doctors they are given a tonic and told that they “will come
around all right.” They do, in about nine months with another baby.
If you can devise any way to help us please do so and believe me your
grateful friend,
____.
V. P. L.
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