Mary Ware Dennett and Birth Control

Letter to the Members of the Senate and House of Representatives; Letter to the Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee

Letters

By: Mary Ware Dennett

Date: February 1923

Source: Dennett, Mary Ware. Mary Ware Dennett to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, February 1923; Mary Ware Dennett to the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, February 1923. In Birth Control Laws: Shall We Keep Them Change Them or Abolish Them. New York: Grafton Press, 1926, 110, 116–117.

About the Author: Mary Ware Dennett (1872–1947) was a pioneering advocate of birth control, family planning, and sex education. A tireless crusader for her beliefs, she helped found the National Birth Control League, served as director of the Voluntary Parenthood League, and wrote the famous book The Sex Side of Life.

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