Debate on birth control. Margaret Sanger and Winter Russell

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Margaret Sanger. Debate on birth control. Margaret Sanger and Winter Russell

Debate on birth control. Margaret Sanger and Winter Russell

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Winter Russell. FIRST SPEECH

Margaret Sanger. FIRST SPEECH

Winter Russell. SECOND SPEECH

Margaret Sanger. SECOND SPEECH

Winter Russell. THIRD SPEECH

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Margaret Sanger, Winter Russell

Published by Good Press, 2021

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And so we come to this method. I want as another part of my platform upon which I am to stand to say that I conceive and hold marriage to be more than physical. It is not a purely sensual relationship. It borders on the aesthetic, spiritual, mental, and modern aspects of life, and when you try to take the physical by itself you find a condition of naked sensuality, which is disastrous in the extreme.

My contentions are these: In the first place, fundamentally, virtually, universally, infinitely from every point of view; it is vicious, it is false from every scientific construction that you can possibly conceive of; it is one of the most vitiating things that you can conceive of from every point of philosophy, and physiology and psychology—in other words that you take the law of compensation and try to solve it. It is false from every point of view—from the practical point of view.

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