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First published in 1956; revised and reissued 1962. This issue dated 9/65 on back cover, and stamped "Virginia League for Planned Parenthood."
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Escape from Fear
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Planned Parenthood Federation of America
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1965, c.1962
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M 333 Box 1, Virginia League for Planned Parenthood Records, 1935-2004
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Virginia League for Planned Parenthood Scrapbook
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Virginia League for Planned Parenthood, Inc.
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before 1945
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M 333, Box 5, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00108.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia League for Planned Parenthood Records, 1935-2004</a>
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Collection of materials related to the mission of the Virginia League for Planned Parenthood, including letters, pamphlets, articles in medical journals, events programs, etc.
<p><strong>What Is the Idea Behind Planned Parenthood?</strong></p>
<p><em>Planned parenthood is a democratic concept.</em> It expresses the idea that parents shall have the final choice as to the prgeny they will bring into the world. It stands in contrast to the Fascist dogma that parenthood shall be regulated by an authoritarian state.</p>
<p><em>Planned parenthood is a health measure.</em> It seeks to enable parents to have their children at a time when the couple, and particularly the wife, are fully prepared from the standpoint of physical and mental health for birth of a child.</p>
<p><em>Planned parenthood is a social force.</em> It aids parents in the building of families commensurate with their abilities to provide for them adequately. It contributes to the assurance that children will be born with a healthful heritage, desired and loved by their parents, and with reasonable prospects of a normal, useful life.</p>
<p><em>Planned parenthood is not a panacea for all the problems which work against family stability.</em> It is a part of good maternal care but it cannot substitute for it. It cannot fill the need for decent housing or a living wage. It cannot replace the desirability of a population policy which would encourage families of reasonable size, rather than conditions which penallize their existence.</p>
<p><em>Planned parenthood is contributing to improved health, exonomic standards and family relations in millions of families today.</em> It can make a far greater contribution in the future together with other social and health measures, when its purposes are fully understood and frankly recognized in community life.</p>
<p>Note: The letter to Margaret Sanger which is included in this scrapbook may also be <a title="Letter to Margaret Sanger" href="https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/items/show/79327" target="_blank" rel="noopener">viewed separately</a> in this Gallery.</p>
<p>The letter reads:</p>
<p>___, Va<br />July 26, 1943<br />Margaret Sanger</p>
<p>Dear Madam:<br />I saw your address and picture of some of your grate work in the Look Magazine and I wonder if you would send me some information on Baby spacing. I will be glad to pay for the information. I have two children and I have lost my health and I don't have any way to take care of a large family. I can't give my family the care they should have. Please let me hear from you. Yours for Victory.<br />Mrs.____ Va</p>
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"Please,..I don't want to leave them"
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Virginia League for Planned Parenthood, Inc.
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c. 1940-1944
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M 333, Box 1, Virginia League for Planned Parenthood Records, 1935-2004
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<p>Pamphlet describing the work of the Virginia League for Planned Parenthood. Cover art by Corporal <a title="Obituary for Percy Lee" href="http://bit.ly/PercyLee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Percy Lee</a>.<em> </em><br /><br /><strong>This Mother is Dying Because She Wasn't Well Enough to Have Her Last Baby</strong></p>
<p>Perhaps she was already exhausted from too frequent or coplicated pregnancies. Perhaps she had developed tuberculosis, anemia, heart or kidney diseses which made it dangerous for her to have more children, yet, as in so many cases, no advice was given.<br /><br />Though all she asked was to be able to care for her living children and hold her home together, her life is forfeited.<br />Planned Parenthood measures, under medical direction, can reduce our high maternal and infant death rates, ensure better health for the mother and child, and bring better living conditions for the family.<br /><br />Planned Parenthood can also reduce the number of transmissable and hereditary diseases in the next generation.<br /><br /><strong>We Need Your Contribution to Help End the Waste in Human and Material Resources Resulting from Unplanned Parenthood.</strong><br /><br />The Virginia League for Planned Parenthood, Inc., Richmond, Virginia</p>
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Questions and Answers about Planned Parenthood
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Virginia League for Planned Parenthood, Inc.
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c. 1940-1944
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M 333 Box 1, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00108.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Virginia League for Planned Parenthood Records, 1935-2004</a>
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This publication from The Virginia League for Planned Parenthood, Inc. promotes the idea of "Well Mothers...Wanted Babies" and answers frequently asked questions about family planning and "baby spacing." <br /><br /><strong>Is Planned Parenthood Safe and Harmless?</strong> <br />YES. There is no evidence of harm from the proper use of medically directed methods of birth control. On the contrary there is evidence of better health and happiness for both parents and children. <br /><br /><strong>Is There Any Danger of the Population Being Dangerously Reduced if Birth Control Knowledge and Methods Are Made Available?</strong> <br />Birth Control measures, (though often harmful methods,) are now generally used by all classes of society except the least educated, the most impoverished, and those having the highest tuberculosis, syphilis, and other health problems, including certain hereditary defects.... Birth control, the evidence shows, does not endanger a healthy population growth, and it makes possible a reduction in maternal deaths, in infant deaths, and an improvement in the 'quality of life' for those who are born--born to mothers seeking motherhood in health and security. <br /><br /><strong>Is Birth Control Legal?</strong> <br />YES. Birth control under medical direction is legal. Federal Laws of 1873, which formerly classed birth control as "obscenity," have now been interpreted by rulings of the U.S. District Courts and United States Circuit Court of Appeals in 1936 that the "design of the Federal Statutes was not to prevent the sale or carriage by mail of things which might intelligently be employed by conscientious and competent physicians for the purpose of saving life or promoting the well-being of their patients."
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Reply to letter, Virginia League for Planned Parenthood, May 13, 1944
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Smith, Ellen H., Corresponding Secretary, Virginia League for Planned Parenthood
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May 13, 1944
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M 333 Box 5, Scrapbook 1942, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00108.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia League for Planned Parenthood Records, 1935-2004</a>
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Dear Mrs. ___ <br /><br />Safe and reliable methods of birth control require an examination by a doctor who has been trained in this field of medicine. Each woman varies so much that only a doctor can decide what is best for each case. I wish so much that we could send you information by mail which would help you, but it is only legal for doctors to give this information when it is best for the patient. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">It is legal for doctors</span>, however, and I enclose a leaflet "Questions and Answers About Planned Parenthood" which, on page 7, tells you this. Show it to the doctor you see, and also the Guest Editorials appearing recently in the Virginia Medical Monthly. Also show them this letter. <br /><br />Have you asked your County Health Officer, Dr. Linwood Farley, to advise you what to do? You can address him at Norton, Virginia. You might also write your County nurses, Miss Jennie Jones and Miss Myra Senseney at the same address. Also try writing your Supterindent [sic] of Public Welfare , Mrs. Bessie Lamb Woolfolk, at Norton. Sometimes the Maternal and Child Health Clinics in county health department will give pregnancy spacing advice. <br /><br />We have a list of doctors in your county who have shown an interest in planned parenthood. Perhaps you have not been to one of them, and if not, you might try seeing them and secure advice from one of tem. Their names are: <br /><br />Dr. William N. Botts and Dr. R. W. Holley-- Appalachia <br />Dr. W. OConnor Cox,.........................St. Paul <br />Dr. T. E. Chapman................................St. Paul <br /><br />We hope so much that you can get the help you need from one of these suggestions. It is <br /><br />(page 2) possible that an operation is necessary for you, and that is what the doctors meant when they said it would be very expensive. Perhaps one of the doctors, or the Superentendent [sic] of Public Welfare, or your County nurses, can tell you where an operation can be performed if it is necessary. I hope that this is not necessary. <br /><br />Under separate cover we are mailing you some of our educational material, which tells of the need for planned parenthood to protect the health of mothers and babies. <br /><br />We are so glad that you wrote to us and we hope that you can find a physician who can and will help you. We wish that some of our clinics were nearer to you. You can see from the leaflet "Please--I Don't Want to Leave Them" where they are located. <br /><br />Yours sincerely, <br /><br />Ellen H. Smith <br />Corresponding Secretary <br /><br />P.S. Our Medical Committee will be glad to mail a copy of "Techniques of Conception Control" to an M.D. (doctor) requesting it.
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Letter to Virginia League for Planned Parenthood, May 7, 1944
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1944 May 7
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M 333 Box 5, Scrapbook, 1942, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00108.xml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia League for Planned Parenthood Records, 1935-2004</a>
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______, Va.
_________
May 7th
Dear Sir,
A friend of my gave me your add. and told me of your splendid pamplets. I am twenty nine years old, have had two babies, both with critical instrument cases. It meant either the child or my death.
The doctor told me if I get that way again it will mean my life, and yet the wont tell me how to prevent it. They say it is against the law and if they would help me it would be very expensive.
I cant feel that it would be unlawful when a woman's life depends on it. If only you can understand how desperately I need your help, I am sure you are kind enough to help me if possibly. I cannot tell you how very much I will appreciate it.
Sincerely yours
Mrs. ___________
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