One of two films Weber wrote and directed on contraception and abortion at the height of the controversy surrounding Margaret Sanger’s attempts to legalize birth control in the United States, Where Are My Children? illustrates nothing if not the complexities of this debate. Dogged with censorship troubles across the country, it was far and away one of Universal’s most profitable features in 1916. Entangled in the era’s eugenic theories, the film advocates birth control for the working poor, while condemning affluent white women for their repeated abortions, contrasting the trial of one doctor accused of furnishing contraceptive advice to women in need with that of a doctor who provides abortions to a select coterie of spoiled society women. The following year Weber released The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, an even more pointed engagement with Sanger’s crusade, with Weber herself playing a woman imprisoned for disseminating instructions on family planning. Sanger released her own film, Birth Control, that same year, guiding viewers through a series of arguments favoring legal contraception. Something of cinema’s new-found stature can be seen in the fact that Weber, one of the most respected filmmakers of the day, brought her reputation for quality features to this contentious issue, and that Sanger, one of the era’s leading radicals, used motion pictures to promote her cause.