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In November 1921 Margaret Sanger held the first American Birth Control Conference titled Birth Control Is it moral at the Plaza Hotel in New York A variety of physicians social scientists and reformers attended the conference to support and speak on the issue at hand Socialist sympathizers attended as well as a prominent member of the British parliament Winston Churchill and the acclaimed American novelist Theodore Dreiser Over the span of the next three days the group discussed the global ramifications of birth control In her opening speech Margaret states There are two instincts which have ever guided the destiny of mankind These instincts are hunger and sex The instinct of hunger has received consideration in practically every civilized country and man has adapted his institutions to meet its needs But the instinct of sex has been ignored Not I claim and most of us who make a study of the subject know that this instinct is just as deep just as fundamental as the instinct of hunger It cannot be crushed It cannot be denied But we must understand it
