[Illustration: Margaret Sanger]
For centuries the world has played a game of “hush” about the one most
important fact of marriage. Even today tens of thousands of women are
doomed to a life of hopeless, helpless drudgery—and their children are
doomed to privation and neglect because the mother simply can not give so
many of them the proper care or support.
Words alone can not tell the terrible sacrifice in wasted bodies and
blasted lives that has been exacted from women every year. Words alone
can not express the untold suffering tens of thousands of women—and
children—must endure every year. That is why Margaret Sanger, herself a
mother, and President of the American Birth Control League, dares to tell
the truth about this important subject.
Will you ever write a letter like this?
Only these agony-laden letters can tell the story of woman’s sacrifice
in all its anguish. These are but a few of thousands sent every day to
Margaret Sanger by unhappy mothers who have turned to her for help in
their greatest need, revealing to her the nameless fears and terrors that
clutch at their hearts. Read these letters, and know for yourself what
women still suffer:
“It is terrible to think of bringing these little bodies and
souls into the world, without means or strength to care for
them. I know that this must be the last one, for it would be
better for me to go than to bring more neglected babies into
the world.”
“My baby is only 10 months old, and the oldest of my four
children is 7. I am so discouraged I want to die. Ignorance on
this all-important subject has put me where I am.”
“Why is it,” Mrs. Sanger asks, “that the women of Australia, New Zealand,
Holland, France, and many other nations are permitted to know the
truths that can save them from this terrible suffering, while the women
of America must still endure the agonies to which they are needlessly
condemned?” Margaret Sanger considers it a slur upon the intelligence
of American womankind to deny to them the knowledge which has brought
freedom, health, happiness, and life itself, to the women of other
nations. That is why she has braved the storms of denunciation, why
she has fought through every court in the land for her right to arouse
woman-kind.
In her revolutionary book, Margaret Sanger, internationally famous for
her ceaseless activities in behalf of women and hailed as the liberator
of her sex, shows the way out for tired, struggling womankind. With utter
frankness she tears down the veil of silence that has always surrounded
the subject of birth control. It is a startling revelation of a new truth
that will open the eyes of women everywhere.
Is the Husband or Wife to Blame?
[Illustration]
Whose is the blame for the tragedy of too many children—husband
or wife?
Margaret Sanger, the great Birth Control advocate, comes with a
message vital to every married man and woman.
In her wonderful book Mrs. Sanger shows how women can and will rise
above the forces that have ruined their beauty—that drag them down—that
wreck their mental and physical strength—that make them an easy prey for
death—that disqualify them for society, for self-improvement—and finally
shut them out from the thing they cherish most, their husband’s love.
In blazing this revolutionary trail to the new freedom of women, this
daring and heroic author points out that women who can not afford to
have more than one or two children, should not do so. It is a crime to
herself, a crime to her children, a crime to society.