Under the same leadership, similar bills have been introduced into the legislatures of Connecticut in 1923 and 1925 and of New Jersey in 1925. In Connecticut the bill, beside restricting access to information to those who get it directly from a doctor or a registered nurse, contained a section to repeal the old law which forbids the _use_ of contraceptives, the law which has been the prize joke of the American birth control movement. Appendix No. 7 gives the wording of the Connecticut bill. The wording of the New Jersey law is notably absurd, in that it forbids anyone to be obscene “without just cause,” and then adds a clause forbidding anyone even to make a recommendation _against_ the use of contraceptives, or to give information in any way as to how or where “any of the same may be had or seen or bought or sold.” The amendment proposed by the American Birth Control League merely adds this sentence: “The contraceptive treatment of married persons by duly practicing physicians, or upon their written prescription, shall be deemed a _just cause_ hereunder.” Appendix No. 8 gives the wording in full. Hearings were held in both Connecticut and New Jersey but in neither State was the bill allowed to reach a vote in the Legislature. In Connecticut the Committee advised against changing the laws “at this time.” In California, a bill was introduced in 1917 by Senator Chamberlain and Assemblyman Wishard to remove the words “prevention of conception” from Section 317 of the Penal Code, which is entitled “Advertising to Produce Miscarriage.” Dr. T. Perceval Gerson was head of the citizens committee which initiated the effort. A hearing was held, but the bill died in Committee, although it had excellent endorsement from some of the women’s organizations and from the Los Angeles Obstetrical Society, which passed the following resolution: _Resolved_, that it is the sense of the Los Angeles Obstetrical Society that the effort being made in California by intelligent men and women on behalf of scientific birth control is worthy of support by all having the best interests of society and its individuals at heart. _Resolved_, that the attention of the public be strongly drawn to the fact that this movement for scientific birth control has no relation to the production of abortion or miscarriage, which in fact it aims to eliminate. _Resolved_, that this Society composed of physicians and surgeons earnestly engaged in discussing those aspects of medical science chiefly in the domain of obstetrics, gynaecology and pediatrics, respectfully petition the California Legislature to amend by elimination that portion of Section 317 of the Penal Code, reading, “or for the prevention of conception.” _Further be it resolved_, that this Society at this date, go on record as unqualifiedly approving such propaganda for birth control by scientific contraceptive measures, because of the universal benefits that will accrue.