So, if the final effect of this last proposed “doctors only” bill would be about the same as the freedom bill, so far as access to information is concerned, why go all round Robin Hood’s barn to achieve it, instead of doing it directly and simply? Why try to fool oneself or anybody else into thinking that any law can possibly be devised that will allow many millions of people to learn certain facts, and which will at the same time keep those facts a profound secret from the balance of the people? Does not such a proposition seem to be the outcome of mental processes somewhat akin to those of the man who cut two holes in the barn door, a big one for the old cat and a little one for the kitten? Glance back to the changes in limited legislation which have been proposed since 1881, when the first one appeared, long before the modern birth control movement. It was in New York State, and it permitted doctors to give any instructions (including by inference contraceptive instruction) to “cure or prevent disease.” In 1919 began the rapid succession of limited bills by which some of the legal bars were to be removed. First doctors and nurses were to be allowed to give information. Then the bars were thickened by eliminating the nurses, leaving the doctors in sole possession of the special privilege. Then to thicken the bars still further, the doctors could give it only to the married or to those having a license to marry. Then came the first Federal “doctors only” proposition, by which doctors could inform other doctors and their “bona fide” patients, and dealers could fill contraceptive prescriptions from doctors; but no publications or importation of publications were to be allowed. Then, as the force of criticism began to be felt, and the Cummins-Vaile Bill progressed to the point of being reported out by the Senate Judiciary Sub-Committee in Congress, the bars began to be thinned out again, and in 1925 the Worthington draft appeared, which would permit doctors to inform each other and their patients, and allow dealers to fill physicians’ prescriptions, and would also permit medical and “scientific” publications, and “reprints” from the same. You find that these legislative proposals have swung all the way from a tight “doctors only” bill to a bill that is framed in the language of a “doctors only” bill but which actually would not function as such.