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
Possibly Dr. Work might welcome a practical suggestion, namely, that
he promptly request Congress to change this futile law which has
encumbered the Statute books since Anthony Comstock got it passed in
1873. Any law that can’t be generally enforced should be repealed.
How about the families below the income tax exemption? There are over
ten million of these also,—and they are the ones against whom this
laws works successfully. Their ignorance and poverty prevent their
securing the knowledge which the well-to-do get in spite of the law.
This Bulletin of Dr. Work’s may well serve as a reminder that common
fair play for these ten million families demands that Congress shall
change the laws at once. Perhaps also this Bulletin will rub it into
the minds of the well-to-do parents that the knowledge by which they
space their own babies and regulate their own family birth rate is
legally classed as “obscene and indecent.” How much longer do decent
people care to submit to this governmental insult?
Several of the best doctors who have done years of research work
on methods of controlling conception, are ready _now_ to write
books. One of the foremost publishing firms of America, with offices
in London also, is ready to bring out an American edition of the
excellent book on the control of conception, by a famous British
scientist,—a book which has gone through five editions in England,
and is the generally accepted text-book on the subject. Our law
prevents.
It is time to do something beside talk. It is time to _end the need
for the birth control movement_, by demanding that Congress change
the laws.
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