Medicine: Birth Control Astride

Organized medicine is slowly, deliberately hoisting young Birth Control astride its broad old back. The New York Academy of Medicine, which subtly is striving for spokesmanship of the U. S. profession, last week formally stated that it wants lifted all laws which restrain physicians from imparting birth control information; and that medical schools and hospital clinics should teach contraceptive methods. Argument: contraception, long a fact and now a spreading practice, should be placed under highest-grade medical control.

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