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"Emma Goldman Enthusiastic Agitator of Birth Control" from The "Los Angeles Record"

"Emma Goldman Enthusiastic Agitator of Birth Control" from The "Los Angeles Record"

"Emma Goldman Enthusiastic Agitator of Birth Control" from The Los Angeles Record, published June 1, 1916.

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01-JUN-16
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EMMA GOLDMAN ENTHUSIASTIC AGITATOR OF BIRTH CONTROL
Emma Goldman, national lecturer, student, anarchist, free-thinker, is in Los Angeles to tell women the secrets of birth control!
"No woman under 25 should be a mother," she states.
"Every woman should have the right to say whether she shall have a child or not. Motherhood should be a voluntary act; not the act of a slave.

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Jewish Women's Archive. ""Emma Goldman Enthusiastic Agitator of Birth Control" from The "Los Angeles Record" ." (Viewed on November 22, 2025) <https://qa.jwa.org/media/article-about-goldman-and-birth-control-movement>.