Margaret Sanger

"Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding."

"Peggy was sleeping. Her pulse was so soft and slow. I was unable to realize that the end was near and had my fingers on her ankle to get the pulse when before my eyes arose another Peggy horizontally …"

"Margaret Sanger: Oh, John you do ask hard questions. I should think, that instead of being impractical, it is really very practical and intelligent and humane."

"Let us not confuse the sexual impulse with love, for it alone is not love, but merely a necessary quality for the growth of love."

"John Parsons: What about the women who want babies now and in 10 years won’t be able to have babies? Rather impractical don’t you think?"

"Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race."

"British Pathé: Mrs. Margaret Slee, President of America’s Planned Parenthood Federation, maintains that European Women should stop having babies for the next ten years:"

"While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion as justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a …"