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
until you have read our wonderful book on Birth Control. Tells
simply and clearly all about =Birth Control=, Marriage; etc.
Discusses the following vital subjects: “=Private Advice to Women=;
=Birth Control=; =Too Many Children=; =Determination of Sex=; =Race
Suicide=.” Over 200 pages, cloth bound. =Also=, for a limited period
only, “What Every Mother Should Know,” by =Margaret Sanger=, great
Birth Control Advocate. =SEND NO MONEY.= Pay postman $2.50 and
postage for the two books.
=PUB. CO.=, =Broadway, N. Y. C.=,
_WHY PAY THE PRICE?_
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The writer took the trouble to go to the address given, and to inspect
the book. It contained no contraceptive information whatever. It
distinctly _did not_ tell “all about birth control.” The man in charge
of the office, and who had been responsible for the advertisement,
admitted its deliberately fraudulent character, and frankly said he
used this method to make the book sell better, that personally he
did not like sensationalism, but “one must make a living somehow.”
The writer also inquired of the publisher of the paper in which the
advertisement appeared, as to how they dared and why they cared to
publish this sort of thing. Apart from the question of taste, it would
seem as if the advertisement warranted indictment for obtaining money
under false pretenses for one thing, and for another that it gave
“notice” ... “directly” ... “where” to obtain (contraceptive) birth
control information. The result of the inquiry was a letter from the
publisher’s office saying that the contract for the advertisement
would not be renewed. It also stated that every advertisement that had
ever appeared in their paper had “first had the endorsement of the U.
S. Postal authorities.” This last is surely an amazing statement. If
the Postal Authorities are willing to approve such crass, vulgar and
fraudulent advertisement of birth control information under the present
laws, it would seem not a wild thing to demand a change of the laws, so
that advertisements could be open, dignified and honest, as they may be
in England, for instance. One of the largest and most reliable of the
British chemists advertises its service by the simple words, “All birth
control requirements, —— and Co. —— London.” One of the best known
medical publishers of England announces the important new book on the
control of conception by Dr. ——, with the natural straightforwardness
that belongs to any scientific subject. One of their advertisements
reads as follows (except for the omissions compelled by our laws):
* * * * *
ITS THEORY, HISTORY AND PRACTICE
A Manual for the Medical and Legal Professions
By ——, D.Sc., Ph.D.,
(Fellow of University College, London)
_Contents_:
Author’s Preface
Introduction by Sir William Bayliss, F.R.S.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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