“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.”

Source: Woman and the New Race, (1922), Chapter 2, "Women's Struggle for Freedom"

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