The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers. Many of this group are diseased, feeble-minded, and are of the pauper element dependent upon the normal and fit members of society for their support. There is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped.

No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit.

Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.

Like begets like. We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees... . Abused soil brings forth stunted growths.

We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all-that the wealth of individuals and of state is being diverted from the development and the progress of human expression and civilization.

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order.