Birth control laws

The actual situation under federal and state law—Not even parents can lawfully inform their married children about how to space their babies—No doctor can lawfully or adequately...

The big repeal petition of 1876 started by National Liberal League—Comstock’s obscenity exhibit wins again—Sanger arrests crystallize growing movement for repeal of law—National...

Probably most physicians have not yet thought what sort of laws they want—Resolutions by medical associations depend largely on way subject is presented and by whom—Doctors have...

_The actual situation under Federal and State law: Not even parents can lawfully inform their married children about how to space their babies: No doctor can lawfully or adequat...

_How it came about that information concerning one item of science became a criminal indecency: Anthony Comstock’s blundering bequest to the people: Congress an unwitting partne...

_Relatively few indictments in over fifty years: Ulterior motive in many of those: Post Master General Hays’s leaning toward revision: Post Master General Work’s gesture of enfo...

_The big repeal petition of 1876 started by National Liberal League: Comstock’s obscenity exhibit wins again: Sanger arrests crystallize growing movement for repeal of law: Nati...

Association in 1876, secured a petition 2100 feet long, containing 60,000 names, and presented it to Congress, following it up with the most infamous attacks upon the efforts to...

_Interest caused by Mrs. Sanger’s arrest caused much activity despite war-time conditions: First repeal bill initiated by National Birth Control League in New York Legislature:...

_1919 sees first concerted effort to repeal Federal law: Initiated by Voluntary Parenthood League, an outgrowth of National Birth Control League: Disbanding of earlier organizat...

_Delay in arranging hearings analogous to delay in sponsoring bill: Joint Hearings by Senate and House Judiciary Sub-Committees held on April 8 and May 9, 1924: Mr. Vaile in ope...

_No one answer covers all reasons: Quiet request to Congress for repeal might have succeeded twenty years ago, before sensational law-breaking created prejudice: Laws defied wit...

_“Doctors only” Federal bill followed straight repeal bill just as limited bills in States followed straight repeal bills: Advocated on Margaret Sanger’s initiative: Provides me...

This bill would thus amend but two of the five Federal statutes which prohibit the circulation of contraceptive information or means. The Cummins-Vaile Bill amends all five (as...

_Probably most physicians have not yet thought what sort of laws they want: Resolutions by medical associations depend largely on way subject is presented and by whom: Doctors h...

_People’s first individual want is reliable contraceptive information: Strong probability that people prefer decent enforceable laws to those which are dirty and unenforceable:...

_Congress will do what the people want if the request is made clearly and forceably enough: Inhibitions are waning: Later generations will not bless birth control workers or Con...