_Mrs. Dennett_: I do not. It has gone on sub rosa, illegally, and on a bootlegging basis. That is a most undesirable basis for scientific research work. There are no exemptions for the medical profession to these Federal laws—none whatever—and I should be glad to submit to the committee the statement in writing from the solicitor for the Post Office Department, that there are no exemptions for individuals or groups of any sort. The medical profession, therefore, is most seriously handicapped. _Mr. Hersey_: Well, why does not the American Medical Association at its annual meetings, recommend that Congress pass a bill like this to relieve them of that difficulty? Why do they not go on record? Why is it necessary for your organization of women to come in here, without knowledge of what you are asking for? _Mr. Vaile_: May I make a statement, Mr. Chairman? _Mr. Hersey_: Yes; I should be glad to have you. _Mr. Vaile_: My understanding is, that there is reliable information at present—not claimed to be very great, but reliable, as far as medical science can get reliability at the present day—which we want to be able to send through the mails. _Mr. Hersey_: Where is it? _Mr. Vaile_: Mrs. Dennett can tell you, I think. _Mr. Hersey_: I wish she would. _Mrs. Dennett_: There are admirable publications upon the subject abroad. They can not be legally brought into this country. There are some publications in this country being illegally circulated by well known medical authorities, without the names attached. Their names can not be attached until the law allows. Otherwise they are criminal, indictable under the present laws. _Mr. Hersey_: Do you think there is some man of high medical standing in America to-day who has this information? _Mrs. Dennett_: There are a great many. _Mr. Hersey_: Is it possible for you to find one of those medical men of high standing in the profession to come before this committee and say that his experience has shown that this remedy that he has, even if secret, is all right? _Mrs. Dennett_: We have one here to-day, and I will gladly yield to him—Doctor Litchfield of Pennsylvania. _Mr. Hersey_: We will be glad to hear from him. This legislation asked for is to make available to the people something that will prevent conception? _Dr. Litchfield_: There is not any one thing asked for. We ask for the freedom of the mail to give suitable information to suitable cases of methods that are applicable and desirable. _Mr. Vaile_: If the Chair will excuse a suggestion, I understand that it is against the law in the District of Columbia, following and going a little further than the Federal statute, to give, even verbally, information concerning birth-control methods. _Mr. Hersey_: I am not asking for the information itself. I am asking this doctor, who is presented here as a witness, as an expert, if he knows—