Section 1142: INDECENT ARTICLES.—A person who sells, lends, gives away, or in any manner exhibits or offers to sell, lend or give away, or has in his possession with intent to sell, lend or give away, or advertises or offers for sale, loan or distribution any instrument or article, or any recipe, drug, or medicine, [for the prevention of conception or] for causing unlawful abortion, or purporting to be [for the prevention of conception, or] for causing unlawful abortion, or advertises, or holds out representations that it can be so used or applied, or any such description as will be calculated to lead another to so use or apply any such article, recipe, drug, medicine or instrument, or who writes or prints, or causes to be written or printed, a card, circular, pamphlet, advertisement, or notice of any kind, or gives information orally, stating when, where, how, of whom, or by what means such an instrument, article, recipe, drug or medicine can be purchased or obtained, or who manufactures any such instrument, article, recipe, drug or medicine, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to the same penalties as provided in Section eleven hundred and forty-one in this chapter. (Matter in brackets omitted.) APPENDIX NO. 6 BILL INTRODUCED IN NEW YORK LEGISLATURE IN 1923 _Drafted by Samuel McCune Lindsey of the Legislative Bureau of Columbia University_ Section 1145 of the Penal Code to be amended to read as follows: PHYSICIANS, INSTRUMENTS AND ADVICE. An article or instrument, used or applied by physicians lawfully practicing or by their direction or prescription, for the cure or prevention of disease, is not an article of indecent or immoral nature or use, within this article. The supplying of such articles to such physicians or by their direction or prescription, is not an offense under this article. _The giving by a physician lawfully practicing, to any person, married or having a license entitling him or her to be married duly and lawfully obtained by him or her, of any information or advice in regard to the prevention of conception, on the application of such person to such physician; or the supplying to such physician or by any one on the written prescription of such physician to any such person of any article, instrument, drug, recipe or medicine for the prevention of conception, is not an offense under this article._ Explanation. The portions in italics are new. APPENDIX NO. 7 THE CONNECTICUT LAW AND THE AMENDMENT PROPOSED BY THE AMERICAN BIRTH CONTROL LEAGUE The present statute, enacted in 1878, reads as follows: