Debate on birth control. Margaret Sanger and Winter RussellSanger, Margaret
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Debate on birth control. Margaret Sanger and Winter Russell
Sanger, Margaret
Birth control -- Moral and ethical aspects
We have four sons, and I hope and I pray that instead of getting as a
wife an educated rag and a bone and a hank of hair with accomplishments,
that they will get some of these women that want and love a big family
of children. I believe that their life will be richer, nobler, and
fuller. I have a daughter. I hope and devoutly pray that instead of any
person who is so utterly absorbed in this volunteer practice and they
think that after some years that they will have one or two children—I
would not say a common working man—I would say a divine working man—I
would rather she have one of those and have a big family of children,
rather than she should have one of the other kind.
Little Canada with its families has given a better quality of children
to that town and country than any other place. They call for statistics
of volunteer countries. They don’t realize it that there are great
segments of humanity that have it as a fundamental part of their
life—this matter of sacred relations. When you come to think that there
is not one single phase in life, one single place that you can be
frivolous with this sacred function, that it does not rebound and makes
you repay and takes its penalty—you pay the penalty. They have tried to
take the sweet without the responsibility. They have thought that they
could scheme with this sacred thing and strike a balance book with
nature.
As a matter of fact in China, I was reading the other night, two or
three of the great political economists, they say there is not a single
case in the history of the world where there has been starving because
of the number of people. The future of the race belongs to those that
have the numbers.
Then they say it is due to the war and the explosive populations. It is
just ourselves, Germany, France and Italy, who have been practising this
thing for years, the big material nations of the world, that are to
blame. Those nations that are true to life are going to inherit the
earth. It is inexorable in the way in which it works out.
As I look at America today, I see it in the grip of a foul monster. It
was as though we have been gassed. I consider these teachings as mental
and spiritual dope. Morphine and heroin don’t compare with the way in
which we are duped today. It speaks in all of our literature and
customs. When you see a woman in a pregnant condition today, you see
smirks and snubs as though it was a misfortune to that poor woman. We
are today in the grip of a foul monster. It speaks in our literature.
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