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Birth Control Is Not Contraception Indiscriminately And Thoughtlessly Practiced. It Means The Release And Cultivation Of The Better Racial Elements In Our Society, And The Gradual Suppression, Elimination And Eventual Extirpation Of Defective Stocks — Those Human Weeds Which Threaten The Blooming Of The Finest Flowers Of American Civilization.

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.

As Often As I Have Witnessed The Miracle [birth], Held The Perfect Creature With Its Tiny Hands And Feet, Each Time I Have Felt As Though I Were Entering A Cathedral With Prayer In My Heart.

The First Right Of Every Child Is To Be Wanted, To Be Desired, To Be Planned For With An Intensity Of Love That Gives It Its Title To Being.

Birth Control Itself, Often Denounced As A Violation Of Natural Law, Is Nothing More Or Less Than The Facilitation Of The Process Of Weeding Out The Unfit, Of Preventing The Birth Of Defectives Or Of Those Who Will Become Defectives.