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Quotes from Woman and the New Race — Margaret Sanger

1879–1966 United States

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It is apparent that nothing short of contraceptives can put an end to the horrors of abortion and infanticide.

Woman and the New Race (1922)

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 disgrace to civilization.

Woman and the New Race (1922)

Usually this desire [for family limitation] has been laid to economic pressure... It has asserted itself among the rich and among the poor, among the intelligent and the unintelligent. It has been manifested in such horrors as infanticide, child abandonment and abortion.

Woman and the New Race (1922)

The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom. A free race cannot be born of slave mothers. A woman enchained cannot choose but give a measure of that bondage to her sons and daughters. No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Woman and the New Race (1922)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Margaret Sanger (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.