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Baird also spoke at Harvard and challenged policemen to arrest him for distributing information about birth control. He was not arrested and has not been prosecuted on that charge
Baird successfully challenged similar laws in New York State before entering Massachusetts. He heads the Parent Aid Society in New York which gives advice on birth control and on abortions...
Belliro expects the court to throw out the law against exhibiting birth control devices but uphold the law against distributing them, he said. He is handling Baird's case at his own expense, but the costs of printing the brief were supplied by Playboy magazine...
Massachusetts' highest court will hear William R. Baird challenge the constitutionality of the state's birth control laws today. Baird faces a maximum jail sentence of ten years if the laws are upheld...
Baird was arrested after distributing contraceptive foam to an unmarried woman at a public meeting at B.U. in April, 1967. He was found guilty by the Suffolk Superior Court of exhibiting a birth control device and of distributing a device to an unmarried woman...