American Birth Control League
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 328
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...and Massachusetts names "self-abuse" along with abortion and prevention of conception. /"LEAR and definite laws on contraception are found on the statute books of the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma and Wyoming--eighteen--as well as Porto Rico, Ontario and the United States federal government. The federal laws are quite full in expression, and perhaps served as model for most of the States. If a court regards written matter relating to contraception or means to accomplish this as "obscene, vulgar and indecent," then laws apply also in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin--twentythree in number. In some States a limitation is "if they manifest a tendency to corrupt the morals of youth" or morals generally. "Articles and instruments of immoral use or purpose" are denounced, but no specific purpose or object of such is set out in the laws of Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Utah. In Maryland "obscene and indecent" books are mentioned, and "obscene" matters in South Carolina, with no more specific designation. In Ontario the law very widely includes the assertion or warranty of the offender, as the language is "any article intended or C. Ruppenthal represented as a means of preventing conception or causing abortion." To make...