The Case for Birth Control: A Supplementary Brief and Statement of Facts

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PREPARED BY
MARGARET H. SANGER
To Aid the Court in its Consideration of the Statute designed to prevent the dissemination of information for Preventing Conception
PUBLISHED, MAY 1917
JONAH J. GOLDSTEIN
COUNSEL
Copyright by
MARGARET H. SANGER
1917
The purpose of the Appellant in presenting the various statistics and medical and social facts incorporated in the supplementary brief, entitled THE CASE FOR BIRTH CONTROL, is to give the Court a clear conception of the meaning of birth control. The historical stages through which this question has gone have been reviewed, its status in foreign countries outlined. Finally, the effects upon the commonwealth of the prohibition contained in the Section known as 1142 of the Penal Law have been made clear. Said Section comprises in its prohibition the very points of knowledge most necessary to human liberty, and has resulted in extreme harm to the individual, to the family and to society at large.