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...Bill Baird himself answered when I knocked at his door. Dressed in black shirt and pants, pale and haggard, he invited me into his single motel room. Open suitcases and stray newspaper articles lay on the floor and beds. Until last week he had been sleeping on floors in the rooms of BU students. Then his lawyer, Joseph Balliro, who's defending him without fee, grew exasperated with communications problems, since Baird was moving around so much, and put up the $100 for a week's lease. When I spoke to Baird, the lease had expired three days...
...Baird feels intensely alone these days. He has few active supporters now--two young New Yorkers, Mike Luckman and Billie Blair, and a couple BU students. His wife and four children have had to stay behind in New York, and he is deeply in debt and has no money. But more important, until his trial last week, he has been going unnoticed...
...Baird's credentials are impressive. Ten years ago, after four years of college and one of medical school, he joined a drug firm and became a consultant and specialist on contraceptive products. In 1964 he was hired by EMKO as a clinical director, which meant that he lectured to medical associations and hospital staffs on the use of the EMKO contraceptive for married couples...
...chanced to be in a hospital emergency room when a twenty-nine-year-old Negro woman died after trying to abort herself with a coat-hanger. "I realized that somebody had to go into the slums and help these people," Baird recalls. He started making trips into poor neighborhoods on his own time, lecturing on methods of contraception to the unmarried and married alike. As a direct result, he says, EMKO fired...
...York law on two counts, exhibiting and publicly teaching methods of contraception, and his career in the courts began. Before the New York Supreme Court could rule on whether or not the two statutes were violations of Constitutional rights, the state legislature voted to liberalize the laws anyway, and Baird had triumphed. John Lindsay wrote him, "I certainly agree with you that the statute under which you were arrested is an obsolete and archaic law. I respect your courage and your concern in forcing a test of the statute." And on May 15, 1966, a year to the day after...