Word: controls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Widener Library and the books that are kept in the "Cage." The article stated, "Any book published in the United States or readily available here will be placed in the regular stacks regardless of its content, with the exception of certain medical works like the Kinsey report and birth control propaganda, which are regulated by Massachusetts." [italics added...
...throw some light on the Massachusetts law regarding birth control? Here is some information which, if more widely known, would bring into circulation a great deal of important literature and other data now unfortunately being relegated to locked shelves...
There is no Massachusetts law regulating birth control propaganda. There is a law here which makes it illegal for doctors to prescribe medical contraceptives to patients and for anyone to sell or to advertise any drug or device which is intended to be used for contraception...
...when the Planned Parent-hood League attempted to change the law through Initiative Petition and Referendum by "an act to allow physicians to provide medical contraceptive care to married mothers for the protecton of life and health." There is nothing in the law which prohibits propaganda for birth control as a medical, social or economic policy--nor indeed anything which prohibits propaganda against birth control...
...Club will be completely restored as soon as possible, James M. O'Brien '59, club president, announced yesterday. Flames swept through the interior of the clubhouse Sunday night before being brought under control by the Cambridge Fire Department...