1929. 8vo, pp. 38; lightly foxed throughout; staple bound in the original green printed card wrappers, fore-edge a little faded and knocked, with some light foxing; a good copy. In 1929, Margaret Sanger formed the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control to lobby for federal laws allowing doctors to legally prescribe contraceptives. The Committee also began their campaign to either amend or repeal the Comstock Laws of 1873, which had made it illegal to distribute both contraceptives and any printed material relating to sexuality and reproduction. To argue their case, they hired the New York firm of attorneys, Goldstein and Goldstein, to compile and interpret the existing federal and state laws concerning birth control in the U.S. the findings of which are published in the present pamphlet, in a format which could be easily distributed to inform the wider public.
Sanger’s campaign and that of the Committee was to prove long-running, but in 1938 the federal ban was lifted on birth control - both devices and information.