Birth control laws : $b shall we keep them, change them, or abolish themDennett, Mary Ware
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Birth control laws : $b shall we keep them, change them, or abolish them
Dennett, Mary Ware
Birth control; Birth control -- Law and legislation -- United States
“SEC. 245. Whoever shall bring or cause to be brought into the
United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, from
any foreign country, or shall therein knowingly deposit or cause
to be deposited with any express company or other common carrier,
for carriage from one State, Territory, or District of the United
States, or place noncontiguous to, but subject to the jurisdiction
thereof, to any other State, Territory, or District of the United
States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction
thereof, or from any place in or subject to the jurisdiction of the
United States through a foreign country to any place in or subject
to the jurisdiction thereof, or from any place in or subject to
the jurisdiction of the United States to a foreign country, any
obscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy book, pamphlet, picture, paper,
letter, writing, print, or other matter of indecent character; or
any drug, medicine, article, or thing designed, adapted, or intended
for producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral use; or
any written or printed card, letter, circular, book, pamphlet,
advertisement, or notice of any kind giving information, directly
or indirectly, where, how, or of whom or by what means any of the
hereinbefore-mentioned articles, matters, or things may be obtained
or made; or whoever shall knowingly take or cause to be taken from
such express company or other common carrier any matter or thing, the
depositing of which for carriage is herein made unlawful, shall be
fined not more than $5000, or imprisoned not more than five years, or
both.”
SEC. 4. That section 312 of the Criminal Code be amended to read as
follows:
“SEC 312. Whoever shall sell, lend, give away, or in any manner
exhibit, or offer to sell, lend, give away, or in any manner exhibit,
or shall otherwise publish or offer to publish in any manner, or
shall have in his possession for any such purpose, any obscene book,
pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture,
drawing, or other representation, figure, or image on or of paper
or other material, or any cast, instrument, or other article of an
immoral nature, or any drug or medicine, or any article whatever for
causing unlawful abortion, or shall advertise the same for sale, or
shall write or print, or cause to be written or printed, any card,
circular, book, pamphlet, advertisement, or notice of any kind,
stating when, where, how, or of whom, or by what means, any of the
articles above mentioned can be purchased or obtained, or shall
manufacture, draw, or print, or in anywise make any of such articles,
shall be fined not more than $2000, or imprisoned not more than five
years or both.”
SEC. 5. That section 305, paragraphs (a) and (b), of the Tariff Act
of 1922 be amended to read as follows:
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