On detailed analysis the absurdity grows. The doctor could mail instructions, a prescription or a contraceptive to his patient, but patients could not recommend the doctor in a letter to any one else, for that would be an “obscenity.” No magazines, not even medical journals, could name the doctors who are good authorities on this subject, for that too would be “obscene.” No scientists or health authorities or welfare workers could write even privately to people in dire need, listing the physicians who have made a specialty of studying methods. No hospital or clinics could mail announcements of their contraceptive service, for it would all be “obscene.” The general public would have no way of ascertaining who the experts were except by the very limited way of verbal inquiry. The bill would permit importers, manufacturers and dealers in drugs to transport contraceptives, though the importer could not import them! _But the final beneficiary of this traffic would be the physician._ The whole commerce would have no other lawful outlet than via the doctor’s prescriptions. If the dealers should fill retail orders for any one who is not a doctor or who does not present a doctor’s direct prescription, they would be criminals under the obscenity laws. Obviously the dealers would not keep their business within any such prescribed lines. Even under the present laws dealers sell contraceptives in ever increasing quantity. They are either camouflaged as protection against venereal infection and as treatment for local ailments, or are sold on a plain boot-legging basis. Any attempt to keep this traffic within the bounds of this proposed bill would be just so much paper. No responsible legislators could be expected to take it seriously. The country is burdened with enough unenforceable laws already. Not only will dealers sell contraceptives anyhow, but the one thing individuals can be counted upon to do is to spread the news as to what doctors give good advice, to repeat and copy their prescriptions ad infin. Information exclusively by the doctor-to-patient system is ruined at the start. No possible laws could enforce it.