Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word Christian is an all-sufficing label . . . the missionaries' supporters at home are firm believers in prohibition, but the missionaries themselves know that the liquor traffic in the Ottoman Empire has been in the hands of native and Western Christians. . . . The city of Islam has been under Christians' control for four years and the sight of it has been such a rebuke as Christendom has not suffered since the great Moslem reformation first purged the decadent Eastern Christendom of the Middle Ages. ... I believe that American Protestantism and British Nonconformism have their greatest task still ahead of them and that...
Revelations of the existence of a quietly functioning "birth control clinic" at the Fifth Ave. (Manhattan) office of the American Birth Control League, combined with the agitation over a clinic in Chicago (TIME, Dec. 3) and the anticipated clash over birth control in the 68th Congress have again placed in the foreground of public attention one of the most vexed and, from whatever standpoint considered, one of the most important of medico-social problems...
...States. Nineteen States have clear and definite legislation essentially similar to the Federal statutes. Twenty-five other States have more ambiguous laws relating to "obscene, vulgar and indecent" objects or written matter of "immoral purpose." Four States?Georgia, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina? have no legislation on birth control. One State?Connecticut?goes the limit, no exceptions, even to prohibiting the use of any "drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception...
...this loophole which has made possible the operation of the present Fifth Avenue "clinic" by the American Birth Control League, Mrs. Sanger's organization. The clinic has been running since Jan. 1, 1923, and has advised 900 women gratis, during that period. It is in charge of Dr. Dorothy Bocker, formerly director of maternity and infant hygiene with the Georgia State Board of Health, surgeon of the U. S. Public Health Service, a graduate of Long Island College Hospital Medical College and an instructor in various universities. The experiment has been investigated by hundreds of social workers and physicians...
...patients were almost equally divided between Protestants, Catholics and Hebrews. Police interference has been threatened, but the legality of the clinic is not likely to be seriously challenged. The various birth control propaganda groups, however, are seeking much more .than the mere establishment of a few clinics. The Voluntary Parenthood League (Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, Director) is making a concerted effort for the repeal of the sections of the Federal obscenity laws referring to contraceptive measures. In the short session of the last Congress a bill to accomplish this was introduced by Senator Cummins and Representative Kissel. Although many Congressmen...