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We have discovered that initial intelligence... in the mothers of the most poverty-stricken strata of society -- a rudimentary type of intelligence, if you will, but nevertheless capable of growth and development if nourished and cultivated in a sympathetic and civilized way -- by sympathy, by answering the questions nearest the poor mother's heart, be meeting her needs, by divesting the technique of contraception of its harsh, professional and incomprehensible verbiage so that it becomes an everyday matter in her life.
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Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion. It has been my experience that more children are not really wanted, but that the women are compelled to have them either from lack of foresight or through ignorance of the hygiene of preventing conception.
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To conserve the lives of these mothers and to prevent the birth of diseased or defective children are factors emphasizing the crying need of a sound and sane educational campaign for birth control.
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...in these days an awakened womanhood is beginning to pay attention to the fundamentals. We are more interested in the removal of causes than in the application of palliatives.
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We have never given womanhood a chance. We have given motherhood too many burdens; and I claim it is time for us to speak up for womanhood and to make womanhood something lovely and have it precede motherhood.
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A woman's body belongs to herself alone. It is her body. It does not belong to the Church. It does not belong to the United States of America or to any other Government on the face of the earth. The first step toward getting life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for any woman is her decision whether or not she shall become a mother.
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...it was my duty to place motherhood on a higher level than enslavement and accident.
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...there is a great difference between a woman wanting three or four children whom she can take care of and a woman dreading having a family of ten or twelve children whom she knows she can neither provide with sufficient food and clothing nor give adequate care.
Chronology :
April 13, 2020 : Mothers -- Added.
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