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How Are We To Breed A Race Of Human Thoroughbreds Unless We Follow The Same Plan? We Must Make This Country Into A Garden Of Children Instead Of A Disorderly Back Lot Overrun With Human Weeds.

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.

... It Has Always Been The Depth Of My Belief, My Faith, Or My Love That Was The Mainspring Of My Behavior. When Once I Believed In Doing A Thing, Nothing Could Prevent My Doing It.

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.

Knowledge Of Birth Control Is Essentially Moral. Its General, Though Prudent, Practice Must Lead To A Higher Individuality And Ultimately To A Cleaner Race.