...to the sidewalk. That was the last thing I saw as the Black Maria dashed off to the station. Birth Control — A Parents' Problem or Woman's? The problem...no one can share the suffering of the overburdened mother, so no one can do this work for her. Others may help, but she and she alone can free herself....

...WOMAN'S?"5 The problem of birth control has arisen directly from the effort of the feminine spirit to tree itself from bondage. Woman herself has wrought that...no one can share the suffering of the overburdened mother, so no one can do this work for her. Others may help, but she and she alone can free herself....

...to narrow access to abortion. The following excerpt is from Sanger's Woman and the New Race (1920). The problem of birth control has arisen directly from...no one can share the suffering of the overburdened mother, so no one can do this work for her. Others may help, but she and she alone can free herself....

...to free itself from bondage. Woman herself has wrought that bondage through her reproductive power and while enslaving herself has enslaved the world....no one can share the suffering of the overburdened mother, so no one can do this work for her. Others may help, but she and she alone can free herself....

...the race — it is hers to make or mar."29 Asa result, birth control is strictly the woman's burden: "It is woman's duty as well as her privilege to lay...freedom. Whatever men may do, she cannot escape the responsibility."30 As she said in the first chapter of the book, woman's unfreedom is fundamentally...