ver have been born.

In addition to this grave evil we witness the appalling waste of women's
health and women's lives by too frequent pregnancies. These unwanted
pregnancies often provoke the crime of abortion, or alternatively
multiply the number of child-workers and lower the standard of living.

To create a race of well born children it is essential that the function
of motherhood should be elevated to a position of dignity, and this is
impossible as long as conception remains a matter of chance.

We hold that children should be

1. Conceived in love;

2. Born of the mother's conscious desire;

3. And only begotten under conditions which render possible the heritage
of health.

Therefore we hold that every woman must possess the power and freedom to
prevent conception except when these conditions can be satisfied.

Every mother must realize her basic position in human society. She must
be conscious of her responsibility to the race in bringing children into
the world.

Instead of being a blind and haphazard consequence of uncontrolled
instinct, motherhood must be made the responsible and self-directed
means of human expression and regeneration.

These purposes, which are of fundamental importance to the whole of our
nation and to the future of mankind, can only be attained if women first
receive practical scientific education in the means of Birth Control.
That, therefore, is the first object to which the efforts of this League
will be directed.

AIMS:

The American Birth Control League aims to enlighten and educate all
sections of the American public in the various aspects of the dangers of
uncontrolled procreation and the imperative necessity of a world program
of Birth Control.

The League aims to correlate the findings of scientists, statisticians,
investigators, and social agencies in all fields. To make this possible,
it is necessary to organize various departments:

RESEARCH: To collect the findings of scientists, concerning the relation
of reckless breeding to the evils of delinquency, defect and dependence.

INVESTIGATION: To derive from these scientifically ascertained facts and
figures, conclusions which may aid all public health and social agencies
in the study of problems of maternal and infant mortality, child-labor,
mental and physical defects and delinquence in relation to the practice
of reckless parentage.

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