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last gave birtli to a perfect specimen of a 

 child and, in her joy, exclaimed to her 

 friends, — "My doctor told me my husband 

 ■and I were perfectly formed; that there 

 was no known reason for onr defective 

 children, so I just kept on having children 

 and now I am happy ! ' ' Was this fair to the 

 unborn, or to the children who were born? 

 If, instead of consulting a doctor, she had 

 consulted a scientific poultry breeder, he 

 could have explained the cause. 



Just such examples as these have pro- 

 duced the present hysteria and the cry 

 about "Birth Control." Get to the cause! 

 If men and women would only lead normal 

 natural lives, give up liquor, cigarettes and 

 drugs, be themselves free from disease and 

 hereditary defects, they would not give 

 birth to defective children and no woman 

 would have any fear of giving birth to 

 children. 



"We need far more stringent immigra- 

 tion laws, laws compelling the social dis- 

 eases of men and women to be made a sub- 

 ject of public record, that men be ster- 

 ilized who are so diseased and defective 



