The effort to put Virginia into the black list of states which prohibit contraceptive knowledge and means, was a very recent one. In the legislative session of 1924 a bill was introduced which, according to the _Birth Control Review_, would make it “unlawful to sell, give away or possess any appliance or instrument for the prevention of conception.” The Committee on Moral and Social Welfare to which it was referred received many protests. So also did the sponsor of the bill, Mr. Ozlin, with the result that he withdrew it from the calendar, before it was discussed at all in the House. In Pennsylvania there have been two attempts to make the law more suppressive than it already was, which was quite bad enough, for Pennsylvania is one of the states which make it a crime to tell any one, to have in one’s possession, to publish or to advertise contraceptive information, and it prohibits the circulation of contraceptive means. The first effort was in 1917, the Stern bill, which far surpassed any previous legislation in comprehensive suppression, for it even prohibited “attempting to impart” any “knowledge or information _tending_ to interfere with or diminish the birth of human beings.” If opinions have differed widely as to what constituted obscenity, fancy how they would differ on what “tended” to diminish human birth. Isador Stern, the sponsor of the bill, told Mrs. Alice Field Newkirk of the Main Line Birth Control League, that he wanted to “make it impossible to discuss birth control anywhere in Pennsylvania,—in parlors or in public halls.” The bill was quietly moved along through legislative routine till it passed both houses and it was not until the eleventh hour that many people knew of its existence. Then protests began to pour in to Governor Martin Brumbaugh, urging him to veto it. This he did with a very strong and forthright letter, in which he called it “one of the most reactionary enactments attempted in years.” The veto is here given in full, as it contains several points of importance in considering the question as to what kind of laws on this subject Americans may want: COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA _Executive Chamber_ HARRISBURG, JULY 16, 1917. I file herewith, in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, with my objection, House Bill No. 1643, entitled “An act forbidding the advertising, publishing, selling, distribution, or otherwise disseminating or imparting, or attempting to disseminate or impart, knowledge or information tending to interfere with or diminish the birth of human beings in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; defining it as a misdemeanor and defining its punishment.”