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• Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966

• What We Stand For: Principles and Aims of the American Birth Control League, Inc. (undated; from 1920s), by American Birth Control League (page images at Harvard)

• Killer Angel: A Biography of Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger (Franklin, TN: Ars Vitae Press; New York: Reformer Library, c1995), by George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography (scroll down to find this book among other writings; New York: W. W. Norton, c1938), by Margaret Sanger (PDF files with commentary at lifedynamics.com)

• The Woman Rebel (all 7 issues of this 1914 paper, with supplementary materials and commentary), ed. by Margaret Sanger (full serial archives)

• Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood (second edition; Franklin, TN: Adroit Press, c1992), by George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• Abortion is a Blessing (1975), by Anne Nicol Gaylor (HTML with commentary at ffrf.org)
• Vacuum Aspiration Abortion (Brooklyn, NY: Health Organizing Collective of Women's Health & Abortion Project, 1973) (page images at Duke)
• Freedom of Choice Act of 1989: Hearings Before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session on S. 1912, to Protect the Reproductive Rights of Women, and Other Purposes (Washington: GPO, 1990), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Effect of Changes in the State Abortion Laws (Rockville, MD: US Maternal and Child Health Service, 1971), by Edward A. Duffy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why Abortion? The Myth of Choice for Women Who are Poor, by Anne Nicol Gaylor (HTML with commentary at ffrf.org)
• Abortion and the Christian: What Every Believer Should Know (c1984), by John Jefferson Davis (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Leslie J. Reagan (HTML at UC Press)

• When Abortion Was a Crime: Women, Medicine, and Law in the United States, 1867-1973 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Leslie J. Reagan (HTML at UC Press)

• Abortion Surveillance (partial serial archives)

• Our Bodies! Our Choice! Winning the Fight for Reproductive Rights (second edition, 1991), by Evelyn Sell (HTML at marxists.org)
• Freedom of Choice Act of 1989: Hearings Before the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session on S. 1912, to Protect the Reproductive Rights of Women, and Other Purposes (Washington: GPO, 1990), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legal Ramifications of the Human Life Amendment: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session on S.J. Res. 3, Joint Resolution to Amend the Constitution to Establish Legislative Authority in Congress and the States With Respect to Abortion (Washington: GPO, 1983), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constitutional Aspects of the Right to Limit Childbearing (typescript report, also including Supreme Court opinions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton; 1975), by United States Commission on Civil Rights, contrib. by United States Supreme Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Court vs. Congress: Prayer, Busing, and Abortion (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), by Edward Keynes and Randall K. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Effect of Changes in the State Abortion Laws (Rockville, MD: US Maternal and Child Health Service, 1971), by Edward A. Duffy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Family Planning, Contraception, Voluntary Sterilization, and Abortion: An Analysis of Laws and Policies in the United States, Each State and Jurisdiction (As of October 1, 1976 with 1978 Addenda) (Rockville, MD: U.S. Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Services Administration, Bureau of Community Health Services, 1978), by Alan Guttmacher Institute (page images at HathiTrust)

• Our Bodies! Our Choice! Winning the Fight for Reproductive Rights (second edition, 1991), by Evelyn Sell (HTML at marxists.org)
• Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood (second edition; Franklin, TN: Adroit Press, c1992), by George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• Our Bodies! Our Choice! Winning the Fight for Reproductive Rights (second edition, 1991), by Evelyn Sell (HTML at marxists.org)
• Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood (second edition; Franklin, TN: Adroit Press, c1992), by George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• Life Issues Connector (some full issues, and some selected articles, 1996-) (partial serial archives)

• The Best Intentions: Unintended Pregnancy and the Well-Being of Children and Families (1995), ed. by Sarah S. Brown and Leon Eisenberg (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Laws Concerning Birth Control in the United States (c1929), by Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control, contrib. by Margaret Sanger (page images at Harvard)

• Family Planning, Contraception, Voluntary Sterilization, and Abortion: An Analysis of Laws and Policies in the United States, Each State and Jurisdiction (As of October 1, 1976 with 1978 Addenda) (Rockville, MD: U.S. Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Services Administration, Bureau of Community Health Services, 1978), by Alan Guttmacher Institute (page images at HathiTrust)

• Killer Angel: A Biography of Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger (Franklin, TN: Ars Vitae Press; New York: Reformer Library, c1995), by George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography (scroll down to find this book among other writings; New York: W. W. Norton, c1938), by Margaret Sanger (PDF files with commentary at lifedynamics.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Birth Control: Medicines to Help You (electronic edition, last updated 2016), by United States Food and Drug Administration Office of Women's Health (illustrated HTML at fda.gov)
• Family Limitation, by Margaret Sanger (multiple editions)
• Birth Control: What Is It? (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1923), by Lydia Allen DeVilbiss, contrib. by Adolf Meyer
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Case for Birth Control: A Supplementary Brief and Statement of Facts (New York: Modern Art Print. Co., 1917), by Margaret Sanger
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Harvard
• Debate on Birth Control, by Margaret Sanger and Winter Russell (PDF page images at MSU)
• Fewer and Better Babies, or, The Limitation of Offspring by the Prevention of Conception: The Enormous Benefits of the Practice to the Individual, Society and the Race Pointed Out and All Objections Answered (third edition; New York: Critic and Guide Co., 1915), by William J. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pivot of Civilization, by Margaret Sanger, contrib. by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)
• The Pivot of Civilization (New York: Brentano's, c1922), by Margaret Sanger, contrib. by H. G. Wells
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Woman and the New Race, by Margaret Sanger (HTML at Bartleby)
• Woman and the New Race, by Margaret Sanger, contrib. by Havelock Ellis (Gutenberg text)
• Birth Control: A Statement of Christian Doctrine Against the Neo-Malthusians, by Halliday Sutherland (Gutenberg text)
• Le Néo-Malthusisme: Est-il Moral? (in French; Paris: Édition de Génération Consciente, ca. 1909), contrib. by Alfred Naquet, Remy de Gourmont, A. Laisant, Séverine, P.-N. Roinard, Clément-Janin, Laurent Tailhade, Dr. Klotz-Forest, Nelly Roussel, Louis Lapicque, René Émery, F. Elosu, Salomon Reinach, Louis de Gramont, Gustave Téry, Albert Lantoine, Henry Bauer, Auguste Forel, Urbain Gohier, Henri Maret, Jean Darricarrère, Marie Huot, Léon Frapié, M. le Dr Sicard de Plauzoles, Paul Vigné d'Octon, Eugène Brieux, Victor Dejeante, Léon-Louis, Gustave Guitton, José Théry, Jean Colly, Émile Zavie, and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Book of Nature: Containing Information for Young People Who Think of Getting Married, on the Philosophy of Procreation and Sexual Intercourse, Showing How to Prevent Conception and to Avoid Child-Bearing; Also, Rules for Management During Labor and Child-Birth (New York: Wallis and Ashton, 1861), by James Ashton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Birth Control, What It Is, How it Works, What it Will Do: The Proceedings of the First American Birth Control Conference, Held at the Hotel Plaza, New York, November 11, 12, 1921 (New York: The Birth Control Review, ca. 1921) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Strike of a Sex: A Novel (Chicago: A. B. Stockham and Co., 1896), by George Noyes Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Family Planning: A Global Handbook for Providers (updated third edition, 2018), by World Health Organization and Information and Knowledge for Optimal Health Project, contrib. by United States Agency for International Development Office of Population and Reproductive Health (PDF with commentary at fphandbook.org)

• Does the Birth Control Pill Cause Abortions? (10th edition; Sandy, OR: Eternal Perspective Ministries, 2011), by Randy C. Alcorn (PDF with commentary at epm.org)

• The Birth Control Review, contrib. by Margaret Sanger, American Birth Control League, and Birth Control Federation of America (partial serial archives)
• Eugenics Quarterly (partial serial archives)

• The Politics of Reproduction: Adoption, Abortion, and Surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2019), ed. by Modhumita Roy and Mary Thompson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Natural Liberty: Rediscovering Self-Induced Abortion Methods (Creative Commons licensed edition, c2008), by Sage-Femme Collective (PDF at riseup.net)
• Confessions of an Abortionist, by Martin Avery (HTML at infidels.org)
• Criminal Abortion: Its Nature, Its Evidence, and Its Law (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1868), by Horatio Robinson Storer and Franklin Fiske Heard (page images at HathiTrust)

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