...we explained simply what contraception was; that abortion was the wrong way - no matter how early it was performed it was taking a life; that contraception was the better way, the safer way - it took a little time, a little trouble, but was well worth while in the long run, because life had not yet begun.
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The moral framing may not align with all cultural or personal beliefs.
Our 'overhead' expense in segregating the delinquent, the defective and the dependent, in prisons, asylums and permanent homes, our failure to segregate morons…
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 …
Eugenics aims to arouse the enthusiasm or the interest of the people in the welfare of the world fifteen or twenty generations in the future. On its negative s…
But during all the long years this matter has been discussed, advocated, refuted, the people themselves-poor people especially-were blindly, desperately practi…
Thee might observe incidentally that if the state paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such as to g…
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 aborti…