Fourteen States make it a crime to tell anyone where or how contraceptive knowledge may be acquired. These are: Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, Wyoming. Six States prohibit the offer to assist in any method whatever which would lead to knowledge by which contraception might be accomplished. These are: Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma and Porto Rico. Eight States prohibit depositing in the Post Office any contraceptive information. These are: Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Wyoming.[5] One State, Colorado, prohibits the bringing into the State of any contraceptive knowledge. Four States have laws authorizing the search for and seizure of contraceptive instructions, and these are: Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Oklahoma. In all these States but Idaho, the laws authorize the destruction of the things seized. Certain exemptions from the penalties of these laws are made by the States for _Medical Colleges_ Colorado Indiana Missouri Nebraska Ohio Pennsylvania Wyoming _Medical Books_ Colorado Indiana Kansas Missouri Nebraska Ohio Pennsylvania Wyoming _Physicians_ Colorado Indiana Nevada New York Ohio Wyoming _Druggists_ Colorado, Indiana, Ohio, Wyoming. * * * * * Seventeen States prohibit any information which corrupts morals, 12 of them, as starred in the following list, particularly mentioning the morals of the young. This is an interesting point of view of the frequently offered objection to freedom of access to contraceptive knowledge, that it will demoralize the young. These States are: Colorado, Delaware,* Florida,* Iowa,* Maine,* Massachusetts,* Michigan,* Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas,* Vermont,* Virginia,* West Virginia,* Wisconsin* and Hawaii. Two States have no obscenity statutes, but police power in these States can suppress contraceptive knowledge as an “Obscenity” or “public nuisance,” by virtue of the Federal precedent. These States are: North Carolina and New Mexico. APPENDIX No. 2 [Illustration: EFFECT OF REMOVING THE PROHIBITION OF CONTRACEPTIVE KNOWLEDGE FROM THE FEDERAL OBSCENITY LAWS INFORMATION TRANSPORTABLE THROUGHOUT THE U.S. 24 STATES _and the Dist. of Col., Alaska and Hawaii_, WILL REQUIRE _NO_ FURTHER LEGISLATION _Alabama_ _Arkansas_ _Delaware_ _Florida_ _Georgia_ _Illinois_ _Kentucky_ _Louisiana_ _Maryland_ _Michigan_ _New Hampshire_ _New Mexico_ _North Carolina_ _Oregon_ _Rhode Island_ _South Carolina_ _South Dakota_ _Tennessee_ _Texas_ _West Virginia_ _Wisconsin_ _Virginia_ _Utah_ _Vermont_ _Alaska_ _Hawaii_ _Dist. of Col._ 24 STATES _and Porto Rico_ WILL REQUIRE FURTHER LEGISLATION