“John Parsons: What about the women who want babies now and in 10 years won’t be able to have babies? Rather impractical don’t you think?”

— Margaret Sanger

One Minute News (1947), interview with British Pathé's John Parsons

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American birth control activist, educator and nurse 1879–1966

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