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The Case for Birth Control: A Supplementary Brief and Statement of Facts

Chapter 19: NOTED MINISTERS WHO ENDORSE BIRTH CONTROL
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A supplemental legal brief compiles medical, social, and statistical evidence to argue that access to birth-control information promotes individual and public welfare. It traces the history and international practice of birth control, examines population and birth-rate data, and surveys infant and maternal mortality, diseases aggravated by pregnancy, and harmful avoidance methods such as unsafe abortions. Subsequent chapters analyze links between prostitution, mental deficiency, venereal and other transmissible diseases, pauperism and child labor, and present comparative national experiences and expert opinions. The volume closes with a concise glossary and a conclusion urging legal reconsideration based on the assembled facts.

Mrs. J. Borden Harriman
Mrs. Amos Pinchot
Mrs. Charles Tiffany
Mrs. Robert M. La Follete
Mrs. Herbert Croly
Mrs. Phillip Littell
Mrs. Raymond B. Stevens
Mrs. Simeon Ford
Mrs. Philip Lydig
Mrs. William I. Thomas
Mrs. Robert P. Bass
Mrs. Inez Haynes Irwin
Mrs. Paul Manship
Mrs. Frank Cothren
Mrs. George B. Hopkins
Mrs. J. Sargeant Cram
Mrs. William Leon Graves
Mrs. Gifford Pinchot
Mrs. J. G. Phelps Stokes
Mrs. Elsie Clews Parsons
Mrs. Amy Walker Field
Mrs. Mary Heaton Vorse
Mrs. Juliet Barrett Rublee
Mrs. Frances Hand
Mrs. Mabel Foster Spinney
Mrs. Belle I. Moskowitz
Miss Caroline Rutz-Rees
Miss Jessie Ashley
Miss Lillian D. Wald
Princess Troubetskoy

NOTED PHYSICIANS WHO ENDORSE BIRTH CONTROL

Dr. Abram Jacobi, ex-president, American Medical Association, New York City.

Dr. Hermann M. Biggs, State Commissioner of Health, New York.

Dr. John N. Hurty, secretary, State Board of Health, Indiana.

Dr. Godfrey R. Pisek, professor of diseases of children, New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, New York City.

Dr. J. W. Trask, United States Public Health Service, Washington, D. C.

Dr. Ira S. Wile, editor, American Medicine, member Board of Education, New York City.

Dr. John A. Wyeth, professor of surgery and president of the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital, ex-president of the American Medical Assn., and New York Academy of Medicine, New York City.

Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf, professor of medicine, department of Phthisio-therapy, at New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, New York City.

Dr. Lydia Allen de Vilbiss, formerly of New York State Department of Health, now in charge of the division of Child Hygiene of the State Board of Health of Kansas.

NOTED WRITERS AND TEACHERS WHO ENDORSE BIRTH CONTROL

Ernest Poole
Will Irwin
Walter Lippman
Paul Kellogg
Max Eastman
Winthrop D. Lane
John Reed
Prof. Warner Fite
Prof. William P. Montagu
Prof. Charles Zueblin
Prof. Durant Drake
Prof. Thomas Nixon Carver
Prof. Melvil Dewey
Prof. William H. Allen
Prof. Franklin H. Giddings
Prof. Irving Fisher
Hon. Homer Folks
Hon. William H. Wadhams
Dr. Henry Moskowitz
Hiram Myers
Dr. Scott Nearing
Eugene V. Debs

NOTED MINISTERS WHO ENDORSE BIRTH CONTROL

Rev. Dr. Frank Crane, formerly pastor of the Union Congregational Church, Worcester, Mass., now notable writer of editorial articles for New York Globe, etc.

Rev. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, rector, Protestant Episcopal Church of the Ascension, New York City.

Rev. Dr. Frank Oliver Hall, minister, Church of the Divine Paternity, New York City.

Rev. Dr. John Haynes Holmes, minister, Unitarian Church of the Messiah, New York City.

Rev. Dr. Harvey Dee Brown, minister, Unitarian Church of the Messiah, New York City.

Rev. Dr. Stephen S. Wise, rabbi of the Free Synagogue, New York City.

Rev. Dr. Sidney E. Goldstein, rabbi of the Free Synagogue, New York City.

Rev. Dr. Waldo Adams Amos, rector, Protestant Episcopal Church of St Paul, Hoboken, N. J.

PROMINENT RESIDENTS OF CHICAGO, ILL., WHO ENDORSE BIRTH CONTROL

Dr. Isaac A. Abt
Rev. Myron E. Adams
Rev. Edward S. Ames
Dr. Charles S. Bacon
Mrs. E. W. Bemis
Mrs. I. S. Blackwelder
Mrs. Tiffany Blake
Dr. Anna E. Blount
Ralph E. Blount
Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Bridges
Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Burling
Mrs. Benjamin Carpenter
Dr. and Mrs. Frank Cary
Mr. and Mrs. William L. Chenery
Dr. Frank S. Churchill
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dauchy
Dr. J. B. De Lee
Mr. and Mrs. William F. Dummer
Mrs. Joseph N. Eisendrath
Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank
Dr. John Favill
Prof. and Mrs. James A. Field
Mrs. Walter L. Fisher
Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Frank
Rev. and Mrs. Charley W. Gilkey
Dr. and Mrs. Maurice L. Goodkind
Dr. Ethan A. Gray
Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Gundlach
Mrs. Alfred Hamburger
Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Hamill
Dr. Alice Hamilton
Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Harding
Dr. N. Sproat Heaney
Mrs. Charles Henrotin
Dr. Rudolph W. Holmes
Mrs. Leila K. Hutchins
Dr. Karl K. Koessler
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Landauer
Dr. W. George Lee
Prof. and Mrs. Frank R. Lillie
Prof. and Mrs. J. Weber Linn
Mrs. Edwin L. Lobdell
Max Loeb
Judge and Mrs. Julian W. Mack
Prof. and Mrs. George H. Mead
Dr. James H. Mitchell
Mr. and Mrs. William S. Monroe
Prof. and Mrs. Addison W. Moore
Mrs. James W. Morrisson
Mr. and Mrs. George Packard
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Page
Mrs. Elia W. Peattie
Allen B. Pond
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Porter
Mrs. Julius Rosenwald
Mrs. Dunlap Smith
Mrs. Henry Solomon
Dr. Alexander F. Stevenson
Prof. Graham Taylor
Mrs. Harriet W. Walker
Mr. and Mrs. Willoughby Walling
Mrs. George Watkins
Mr. and Mrs. Payson Wild
Mrs. Wilmarth
Dr. Rachelle Yarros
Victor S. Yarros
Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Zeisler

Physicians, scientists, economists, social workers and others interested in the forward march of this country are simply marking time in progress until it is decided whether or not the medical profession and its assistants have the legal right to impart information to prevent conception to those who need it. A favorable decision would permit men and women to stem the incoming tide of feebleminded, unfit, degenerate individuals who undermine our present social structure and place a burden on generations yet unborn.