We maintain that these practices are detrimental to the family; that they are not in the interest of better families; that they mean the promotion of selfishness within the family and a great reduction in the capacity to endure, the capacity to face hardships, the capacity to do little things, to do the things of life without which there is no consistent achievement or any kind worth while. _Dr. Lawrence Litchfield_, former President of the State Medical Society of Pennsylvania, testified that he had practiced medicine for 36 years. I have been interested in international movements for the control of and the abating of venereal diseases, child labor, and tuberculosis. All of these problems for the benefit of the human race bring us back one after another to the necessity for intelligent birth control. The human race has the same right and need for scientific development that other animals have. We have many laws and many books and many theories that control the breeding of animals, but the breeding of human beings is left entirely to chance. _Senator Spencer_: Is there any law in Pennsylvania against a physician freely communicating to his patients? _Doctor Litchfield_: Yes. If a patient of mine whom I believe would be seriously injured by not having the information to prevent conception wrote me for such information I am legally unable to send it to her. If she comes into my office and the doors are locked, I tell her what I think is wise. _Senator Spencer_: Do the doors necessarily have to be locked? _Dr. Litchfield_: The information can not be given publicly. _Senator Spencer_: But I mean, there is no law in Pennsylvania is there, which prevents a doctor from communicating information of this sort to his patients? _Dr. Litchfield_: There is, as I understand it. I might say, further, as a side light on this question, last summer in Europe my wife and I found a book which we read and thought would be a very good thing for our young married daughter to have, and I decided to import some of these books and give them to my patients who were recently married. I send an order to England and received an answer that the book could not be imported, because it was regarded as obscene. _Mrs. S. J. Bronson_, Secretary of the Voluntary Parenthood League spoke for the bill from the practical standpoint of the wage earner, and said in part: