They mostly ask the same questions and voice the same fears about removing the law which tries (so vainly) to suppress birth control information. They say, “Yes, but if everybody knows how to avoid having children, there won’t be any children!” Then we carefully iron out their fears by showing them that prophecies as to how it _might_ work out are not worth so much as testimony on how it _does_ work out. We tell them of Holland and New Zealand, the two prize birth control countries of the world,—how Holland has had a ratio of increase in population next to that of Germany and Russia—that New Zealand is a garden country for babies, that they make a fine art of motherhood there, with their wonderful chain of maternity hospitals, and that Holland and New Zealand have the lowest general and baby death rates in the world. With the race suicide bogey out of the way, they go on to their next fear, which is that there will be a terrifying drop in moral standards if contraceptive information is easily available. Then again we reassure them by citing the other countries which have no shocking repressive laws like ours, but which nevertheless do not show any records of general promiscuity and unbridled excess, or of sexual laxity among the young. We go further, and remind them that if it be true that the mass of our American young people would have so little moral anchorage that we should fear to trust them with knowledge, then something is awfully the matter with us of the older generations who have reared them, and that it is for us to hasten to develop a keener sense of responsibility for the education of _all_ young people, as well as those of our families. And they all respond to this appeal. They would obviously feel ashamed not to. Another idea they advance with confidence is that “practically everyone can now get the information who really wants it.” And we reply, “Well if that be true, and the law is already so much of a dead letter as that, then why hesitate a moment to repeal it?” But we tell them, of course, that it is not true that everyone has the information who wants it, as is proven by the incessant stream of desperate, ill and unhappy people who clamor for it, also that much of the information which is now illegally and secretly circulated, especially that which is verbal, is inadequate, unscientific and even harmful, and that it is bound to be so till the medical schools include this subject in their curricula and until the doctors can give the information without evading the laws.