There was introduced in Congress last week a bill to be known by the names of its political sponsors—Senator Cummins of Iowa and Representative Vaile of Colo. The object of the bill is to repeal part of Anthony Comstock's obscenity laws of 1873 (TIME, Dec. 17), with the purpose of removing contraceptive information from the category of obscenity. The bill would remove the prohibition against the circulation of contraceptive information, provided such information were certified correct by "five graduate physicians lawfully engaged in the practice of medicine."...
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