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31790***** The Small Family System: Is it Injurious or Immoral?
16135And yet-- can it ever regain this till men and women are at least_ clean_?
16135Does not that create some anxiety?"
16135What have you to say to that?
16135Why do so many women_ allow_ themselves to be impregnated and infected against their will?
16135Why trouble so much about a negation that inevitably means racial death?
16135Would any amount of preaching cause him to change his present ideas of right and wrong?
38185And if one of two things must happen-- either the destruction of fecundity or the destruction of life-- which of the two is the greater evil?
38185And must we say that vice, war, pestilence and famine are desirable to prevent it?
38185But even in this comparatively happy case, shall we count for nothing the years of ascetic sacrifice at which after happiness is purchased?
38185But is this, in itself, desirable?
38185But what is it?
38185But why are there so many unmarried people in the country?
38185Can there be no effectual moral restraint, attended with far less human misery than such physical calamities as these?
38185Does not wisdom tell us that such a sacrifice is a dead loss-- to the warm- hearted often a grievous one?
38185Hence it is demonstrated the ovum is occasionally impregnated in the tubes( why did he not say ovaria?
38185Is it desirable, is it moral, that such women should become pregnant?
38185It has been asked if a general knowledge of checks would not diminish the general increase of population?
38185Must he that becomes diseased be marked as a victim to die for public good, without the privilege of making an effort to restore him to health?
38185Must peace societies excite to war and bloodshed?
38185Must the friends of temperance and domestic happiness stay their efforts?
38185Must the physician cease to investigate the nature of contagion, and to search for the means of destroying its baneful influence?
38185What do, or rather what ought we to mean by organized matter?
38185What might it not have prevented in the Fall River affair?
38185Where now are the feelings and resolve of his youth?
38185Why is there so much prostitution in the land?
59480( 2) Was it practically an injury to the public and an insult to the profession?"
59480And what of the children?
59480And what of those that survive?
59480Are the Freethinkers in India, whether New- Malthusians or not, to quietly stand by and see the free discussion of this question denied the public?
59480But will the others stand round and give whatever help they can, even if silently?"
59480Do you know what poverty means in a poor man''s house?
59480Is there in the adoption of preventive intercourse any invasion of the rights of others?
59480The Socialist asks"Why are the many poor?"
59480The problem is: How can poverty be abolished?
59480The question is, Where does the immorality come in?
59480The question was thus raised-- What is obscenity?
59480Think you such a scene as that is not sufficient to make both himself and her hungry and angry too?
59480What pen can picture the frightful suffering indicated by the figures given above?
59480Why should the poor be kept in ignorance upon a matter of supreme importance to them?
1689Do n''t you know that we women might be dead and buried if we waited for politicians and lawmakers to right our wrongs?
1689Shame they go, but what can do?
1689She never sleeps,explains the old woman,"how can she with so many children?"
1689A conversation held with a''Rooshian- German''woman is indicative of the size of most of the families:""How many children have you?"
1689Also,"Is America Safe for Democracy?"
1689But can we thus learn anything new of the fundamental problems of working men, working women, working children?
1689But what results could be expected when they were forced in addition to carry the burden of their ever- growing families?
1689CHAPTER IV: The Fertility of the Feeble- Minded What vesture have you woven for my year?
1689CHAPTER VII: Is Revolution the Remedy?
1689Further illuminating details are given by Miss Wolfson:"Why did they come to the beet- fields?
1689How can she make her own choice, exercise her own discrimination, her own foresight?
1689In what phase of life is not"power without control"an evil?
1689Is over- population a menace to the peace of the world?
1689Might not some with equal cogency proscribe army contractors and their accomplices, the newspaper patriots?
1689What are her sufferings, her labor pains, her inability to read, to attend meetings, to have a taste of life?
1689What does she amount to?
1689Who is to decide this question?
1689Why not give it a place in real life?
1689Would they sink into a slough of complacency and fatuity?
1689Yet would any corporation for one moment conduct its affairs as we conduct the infinitely more important affairs of our civilization?
1689` Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
8660But are you willing to do that or to allow it to be done?
8660Can I rely upon this? 8660 And can there be any doubt that they acquiesced in the practice of infanticide as a means to that end? 8660 And does not the fact that the women in question do enjoy such influence, point unmistakably to the motive behind the practice? 8660 Are overburdened mothers justified in their appeals for contraceptives or abortions? 8660 Are we doing anything genuinely constructive to overcome this situation? 8660 Are we now producing a freer, juster, more intelligent, more idealistic, creative people out of the varied ingredients here? 8660 Are you horrified at the record set down in this chapter? 8660 But what of the family of the wealthy or the merely well- to- do? 8660 But why not adopt the easier, safer, less repulsive course and prevent conception altogether? 8660 CHAPTER IX CONTINENCE-- IS IT PRACTICABLE OR DESIRABLE? 8660 CHAPTER VII WHEN SHOULD A WOMAN AVOID HAVING CHILDREN? 8660 CHAPTER VIII BIRTH CONTROL-- A PARENTS''PROBLEM OR WOMAN''S? 8660 CHAPTER X CONTRACEPTIVES OR ABORTION? 8660 CHAPTER XI ARE PREVENTIVE MEANS CERTAIN? 8660 CHAPTER XII WILL BIRTH CONTROL HELP THE CAUSE OF LABOR? 8660 CHAPTER XVIII THE GOAL What is the goal of woman''s upward struggle? 8660 Can a mother who wouldrather die"than bear more children serve society by bearing still others?
8660Can anyone knowing the facts ask that we recommend continence as a birth- control measure?
8660Do these elements give promise of a better race?
8660Do we better it by driving out of the immigrant''s heart the dream of liberty that brought him to our shores?
8660Do we not find the children of the South filling the mills, working side by side with their mothers, while the fathers remain at home?
8660Do we not find the father, mother and child competing with one another for their daily bread?
8660Do we want more such families?
8660Do we want the millions of abortions performed annually to be multiplied?
8660Do we want the precious, tender qualities of womanhood, so much needed for our racial development, to perish in these sordid, abnormal experiences?
8660Does any physician believe that the picture is overdrawn?
8660Does anyone believe that physicians and midwives who perform abortions go from door to door soliciting patronage?
8660Does anyone imagine that a woman would submit to abortion if not denied the knowledge of scientific, effective contraceptives?
8660Does it educate them for free- spirited manhood and womanhood?
8660Does it even give them during their babyhood fit places to live in, fit clothes to wear, fit food to eat, or a clean place to play?
8660Does it even permit the mother to give them a mother''s care?
8660Does it not drive the girls to prostitution and the boys to crime?
8660Does it not drive them to the factories, the mills, the mines and the stores to be stunted physically and mentally?
8660Does it not let them die by the hundreds of thousands of want, hunger and preventable disease?
8660Does it not throw them into the labor market to be competitors with her and their father?
8660Does society not herd them in slums?
8660Does society value her offspring?
8660Does this picture horrify the reader?
8660From what sort of homes come these deaths from childbirth?
8660How do they live?
8660IX CONTINENCE-- IS IT PRACTICABLE OR DESIRABLE?
8660If the hope is founded upon realities, how may it be realized?
8660In what direction does our national civilization bend their ideals?
8660Is it any wonder that under handicaps like these labor becomes confused and flounders?
8660Is it certain?
8660Is it general freedom?
8660Is it voluntary motherhood?
8660Is there an answer for women like me?"
8660Is this woman standing guard for the general welfare?
8660Knowing the bitter truth, learned in unspeakable anguish, what shall this woman say to society?
8660Or is it the birth of a new race?
8660Or would it be the better policy to let motherhood follow its instinct to save itself, its offspring and society from these ills?
8660Or, do we wish to permit woman to find her way to fundamental freedom through safe, unobjectionable, scientific means?
8660Rather, shall she not say that until society puts a higher value upon motherhood she will not be a mother?
8660Shall normal, safe, effective contraceptives be employed, or shall we continue to force women to the abnormal, often dangerous surgical operation?
8660Shall she go on breeding children who can only suffer and die?
8660Shall she go on having children who come into being with a heritage of ill health and poverty, and who are bound to become public burdens?
8660Shall she say to society that she will go on multiplying the misery that she herself has endured?
8660Shall this woman continue to be forced into a life of unnatural continence which further aggravates her ill health and produces constant discord?
8660Shall we look to her to strike the first blow which shall wrench her sisters from the grip of the dead hand of the past?
8660Shall we pause here to speak again of the rights of womanhood, in itself and of itself, to be absolutely free?
8660The question that society must answer is this: Shall family limitation be achieved through birth control or abortion?
8660The sole question that society has to answer is, how shall women be permitted to attain this end?
8660These conditions-- not the woman-- outface society with this question:"Contraceptives or Abortion-- which shall it be?"
8660VIII BIRTH CONTROL-- A PARENTS''PROBLEM OR WOMAN''S?
8660What are the concrete things which the worker can gain at once through birth control?
8660What are the fruits of this woeful ignorance in which women have been kept?
8660What can we expect of offspring that are the result of"accidents"--who are brought into being undesired and in fear?
8660What can we hope for from a morality that surrounds each physical union, for the woman, with an atmosphere of submission and shame?
8660What can we say for a morality that leaves the husband at liberty to communicate to his wife a venereal disease?
8660What could the three women mentioned in this letter contribute to the wellbeing of the future American race?
8660What does it all mean?
8660What effect will its practice have upon woman''s moral development?
8660What effect will the practice of birth control have upon woman''s moral development?
8660What elements make up our present millions?
8660What have large families to do with prostitution?
8660What healthier grounds for the growth of sound morals could possibly exist than the ample spiritual life of the woman just depicted?
8660What hope is there for racial progress in this human material, treated more carelessly and brutally than the cheapest factory product?
8660What is that lesson?
8660What is the basis for this hope that is so generally indulged in?
8660What is the effect of the"melting pot"upon the foreigner, once he begins to"melt"?
8660What is the matter?
8660What is the result of forcing continence upon those who are not fitted or do not desire to practice it?
8660What material is there for a greater American race?
8660What opportunities have we given to these peoples to enrich our civilization?
8660What part will birth control play in bringing forth this new standard?
8660What shall be done?
8660What shall be said of society?
8660What shall this woman say to a society that would make of her body a reproductive machine only to waste prodigally the fruit of her being?
8660What shall we say to women who write such letters as those published in the preceding chapter?
8660Where do they live?
8660Where do we find most of the tuberculosis and much of the other disease which is aggravated by pregnancy?
8660Who in the light of intelligent understanding shall have the brazenness to stand up and defend it?
8660Why does this situation exist?
8660Why is all this true of the lower species yet not true of human beings?
8660Why is the question of morality always raised by the objector to birth control?
8660Why put these thousands of women who each year undergo such abortions to the pain they entail and in whatever danger attends them?
8660Will it lift her to heights that she has not yet achieved, and if so, how?
8660Will it prevent absolutely?"
8660Will the offspring of a paralytic, who must perforce neglect the physical care and training of her children, enhance the common good by their coming?
8660Would you know the appalling sum of this misery better than any author, any scientist, any physician, any social worker can tell you?
8660X CONTRACEPTIVES OR ABORTION?
8660XI ARE PREVENTIVE MEANS CERTAIN?
8660XII WILL BIRTH CONTROL HELP THE CAUSE OF LABOR?