28 PEOPLE We ask that the section shall not apply to information when published within or without the United States by any governmental agency, medical society, medical school or medical journal, nor to reprints after such publication. We ask that it shall not apply to any licensed physician or hospital or clinic when sent by them to any other physician, hospital, or clinic. We ask that it shall not apply to anyone who may send the name and address of any physician, hospital, or clinic, where such advice is legally given. We also ask that it shall not apply to any of the articles that may be used for this purpose when sent by wholesale or retail dealers in medical supplies to the physicians, hospitals or clinics, or when sent by a physician to any of his patients. This bill as presented is conservative, logical and constructive. There is nothing in this bill which we ask of Congress which compels the use of contraception by any individual or group which may for religious or other personal reasons object to it. There is nothing compelling anyone to use such information but we do ask the members of Congress to give to millions of mothers who desire it throughout this country the right to have proper scientific information through the proper channels by qualified medical persons. We want no wholesale distribution of indecency nor pornography. We leave the law exactly as it was except we remove the subject of prevention of conception from it and place it in the hands of the medical profession where it rightly belongs. Most of us believe that the original object of these laws was to prevent the dissemination of pornographical literature throughout the United States mails and to restrict its entrance into this country at a time when little was known about scientific contraception. We fully concur with this restriction. We believe, however, that to place medical or scientific information in this class is unjust, unfair to the inhabitants of this country; that it places a great hardship upon the future progress and achievements of our welfare activities. The effect of keeping this law on the statute books is to increase surreptitious, harmful, unscientific information which increases crime, multiplying abortions. This law in effect has already been responsible directly and indirectly for the deaths of approximately one million mothers and for the deaths of fifteen millions of children many of whom were born unwanted and in conditions of hardship, poverty, cruelty, and disease. The effect of keeping this law on our statute books is to keep alive hypocrisy, evasion, and increase a general disregard for the laws. There is nothing to be gained by keeping on the statute books laws that are known to be inimical to personal health, family happiness and racial development. [end]