3. Conversely, it can be assumed that no one would, wittingly, approve laws which are unsound, that is, unsuitable for a democracy, or untrue to the letter or spirit of the Constitution; or laws which are unenforceable, that is, which are a mere gesture, calculated to have a discretionary or educational effect on the public, but are not intended for genuine execution; or laws which are inadequate, that is, which do not permit the widest and speediest opportunity for the largest possible number of people to have access to contraceptive knowledge. 4. It can be assumed also, that in the effort to find a legislative platform which the public and all who are specially interested in the birth control movement can be asked to support, there should be no provisions proposed which are based upon personal, organization, or professional partisanship; that the platform should represent only intrinsic merit, regardless of priority of effort, individual reputation in leadership, or of professional prestige. 5. If all concerned will agree then, as to what _not to do_, they can the more readily determine what _to do_. 6. The basic elements which all hold in common seem to be; a. Recognition that contraceptive knowledge is not obscenity and that it is all gain and no loss to remove it from that classification in law, and that the demand for a clean legal status for the subject is in itself a very valuable educational process for the public. b. Desire that all who need contraceptive instruction shall receive it from the best possible sources, and through the best possible channels. The best sources are generally conceded to be the medical and biological scientists. 7. Point _a_ can easily and properly be achieved by legislation. It involves only striking out “Preventing Conception” from all the obscenity statutes, wherever they occur. 8. But point _b_ presents great difficulty if not impossibility of achievement via legislation, _not, however_, via publicity and a campaign of education. Thus far no legislative proposal on this point _b_ has successfully met any of the three tests named in the first paragraph of this Memorandum as fundamental necessities. They have either been class legislation, or permits for special privilege, or have been unenforceable, or inefficient as means for allowing the accomplishment of the desired aim.