It is noteworthy that those who stand for the “doctors only” idea in legislation are on the whole remarkably unable or unwilling to state their case in any way that is analogous to that of those who stand for the principle of freedom of access to knowledge. Their reasons are hypothetical rather than specific, and seem to be based upon expediency rather than upon principle. For instance a “doctors only” physician was invited to present that side of the argument at an open meeting of the Voluntary Parenthood League, and the points made were these: that a “doctors only” law would better safeguard the public, though no proofs of the assertion were offered; that it would be more easily passed by Congress, though that also was an unsubstantiated assertion, and experience with “doctors only” bills in State legislatures certainly does not back it up; and that it would receive more general endorsement from the medical profession, which again was a supposition that has not been borne out by facts. The final point made by this “doctors only” proponent was the advice to get a limited measure through Congress first, and then to make a later separate campaign to remove the subject from the obscenity statutes. (It was promptly suggested that any one who was willing to propose _two_ long hard campaigns on this project instead of one should be made chairman of a committee to finance them!) Another of the “doctors only” physicians has explained that he takes that stand for diplomatic purposes only, that he is really a firm believer in the ideal of clearing this subject from connection with obscenity, but because “it _sounds_ so safe” to say, “keep it in the hands of the doctors,” he believes it better to work for that sort of law, that it would “reassure the public more,” and that the chief thing to do is to get “permission to circulate medical publications,” explaining how that had “a nice professional sound,” which would prevent alarm, but that “of course it would amount to about the same thing as an open law, only the worried folks wouldn’t know it.”