Mary Ware Dennett, a leading campaigner for legal contraception, examines the federal and state laws that for more than fifty years had classed birth control information as obscene. She explains how they came about, why they were unenforceable, which state and federal reforms had been tried, and what happened at the Congressional hearings on the Cummins-Vaile bill.
A key document of the American birth control movement, sharp on law and politics; some passages reflect the eugenic language of the 1920s. Download the free EPUB.