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For Birth Control

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(1860-1935)


For Birth Control; for mothers free
To bear strong children willingly
And rear them well; not as before
Theirs and their children's lives to pour
In needless death and misery.

Who stands against us? Those who see
Gain in unchecked fecundity --
Not better children -- only more
No Birth Control

For mothers in whose power shall be
The lifting of humanity --
A world of improving more and more --
A world at peace from shore to shore --
This is the reason and the plea
For Birth Control.



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