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man.Captain Donohue, when questioned as lu (he origin of his orders to stop the meeting, said they came from Police Headquarters. All efforts last night to reach Mayor Hylan or Police I Commissioner Enright were futile.Dr. Harriet de Vilbis was to have presided at the meeting. She was al-! ready on the platform when the police entered. Others t.n have spoken were Dr. Royal S. Copeland, Health Commissioner: Dr. Y. M. B. Moons, of Holland, a birth control advocate, and Dr. Al-leyne Ireland, of Manhattan. Deaconess Young, of the Episcopal Home for Delinquent Girls, 17 Beekman Place, was among those occupying seats on the stage.Mrs. Sanger Makes StatementMrs. Sanger later gave out the following statement:The meeting to-night was a culmination of n three-day conference held at the Plaza Hotel to discuss the various aspects of birth control. Harold Cox, editor of The Edinburgh Review and former member of Parliament, was to deal with the subject from an economic aspect and the immorality of war.My idea of calling the public together to-night was in I he belief that tliia subject could be discussed at the Town Hall with na much dignity and delicacy as it was discussed the Inst two days at the Hotel Plaza. Wo were In no way violating the law. I consider my arrest in violation of every princi-1 pie of liberty that America stands for and I shall take this case to the highest courts if necessary to preclude the possibilityof it ever happening agpin.The discussion that was to nave taken place to-night would have been no more against the law than the discussion of the name subject in the book ‘Women.and a New Race.’ which is sent though the mails and which has received the highest recommendation from scientists and students of economics.My arrest will in no way stop the opening of the Mothers' Health Center, at 317 East Tenth Street, where the birth control information will be given without charge to women suffering from disease and for the cure and prevention of disease.
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New York Tribune
New York, New York, US
Mon, Nov 14, 1921
Page 33
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John B.
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