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I hurried back to America to urge women here to help me to do this important work. I asked several prominent women, suffragists, feminists, and others, whom I knew not only believe in the idea of birth control but practiced it. I requested these women to help me to do this work which I thought would strike at the root of the evil. I tried to get fifty women to go on record with me to make a test case in the courts but I was told to wait until we got the vote, I was told to wait until I became better known, but the cries of thousands of suffering women would not let me wait.