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Now, I think on this bill that women “is came.” I think that she 
“is came” in a somewhat hysterical and sentimental way sometimes, 
because there are always women who are hysterical and sentimental 
about everything. We know that we are not perfect, and while we 
have come here in a very well-organized capacity, as I am very glad 
they have come, then others have come here in an unorganized way, 
not the women who have been fighting for women's rights, but the 
women who really have not cared much about women's rights, but 
who have cared a'great deal for men's rights. Let me say that there 
is no woman living to whom I owe half as much as I do to a half a 
dozen men. I was fortunate in having a good father and a good 
brother and innumerable good boy friends in my girlhood, and 1 was 
married when I was 18 years old to a very good man, and I have had 
three sons, and my opinion of mankind has' always been very high 
until this last year, when I began to wonder if I was mistaken. 
I never cared for women's rights, and I never worried about my 
rights, and my opinion of man was very high, although I say that 
with this bill I hope it will pass for the sake of the 25,000 who annually 
die because of lack of proper care. I will say that I am a very happy 
woman. 
There is not a day goes by that I am not glad that every one of 
my children is a boy, who will not know the suffering through which a 
woman passes. I sincerely hope that this bill may pass for the sake 
of the 200,000 who are dying each year, and for the future of our 
country. It is shown that Italy is the only country in which the 
population has increased since the war, and in Italy there is not a 
village where there is not at least a registered woman going out as a 
midwife to help women in childbirth, but more than all, I wish 
that it might pass for the sake of the men of this Nation. I thank 
you. 
(Whereupoon at 11.50 a. m. an adjournment was taken until 
Thursday, April 28, 1921, at 10.30 o’clock a. m.)