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Today Mrs. Sanger's birth control groups surge on. They do so partly to bring the channels of information above ground. But they are equally concerned with flushing false information out of those channels. No longer need millions of men and women be persuaded that contraception is good, possible, practicable. No longer do only "immoral" women and men who fear venereal disease use contraceptives. The household demand for contraceptives has made every drugstore in the land, and a multitude of gasoline stations, poolrooms and candy stores supply depots for the material. Most of such items are unreliable. Some...
...intermittent continence fits perfectly with the word of God, say Catholic authorities. Sixty thousand copies of a single exposition of the Ogino-Knaus rhythm theory and rules have been sold. The originators say that their system is more than 90% positive if their rules are scrupulously followed. Mrs. Sanger says that Ogino-Knaus technique is less than 40% certain...
...Despite furtiveness, commerce in contraceptives has become big business. More than 300 manufacturers today are engaged in it. One distributor of "feminine hygiene" products last year offered Mrs. Sanger $250,000 to give five-minute radio talks on any subject she pleased. She rejected the offer. Three "feminine hygiene" manufacturers last year spent $250,000 advertising in general magazines alone. Five makers of one device sold $35,000,000 worth last year. What the whole commerce amounts to is beyond computation, for most of the business remains furtive...
Abortions. A potent Sanger argument for unrestricted use of contraceptives is that women who do not want babies resort to secret abortions. She estimates that 4,000,000 U. S. women have themselves | aborted each year. Dr. Frederick Joseph Taussig of St. Louis, President Hoover's special investigator of the subject, puts the number at 700,000.* Probably 15,000 U. S. women die each year on account of faulty abortions...
...study the biggest and best abortoriums in the world, Mrs. Sanger last August went to Russia. What she saw there caused her pertly to warn Joseph Stalin and other virile Russians: "Abortions make women nervous. It is common knowledge that the practice of abortion, if it becomes a habit, can do considerable harm to woman's sex life. Neuroses may develop and these in turn may result in frigidity. In this country woman is no longer economically dependent on man. If she becomes frigid, she will not be dependent on him in any other way and, in fact, will...