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CONTRACEPTION

CHAPTER XII.

In Great Britain there is not and there never has been any law against contraception or the publication and distribution of contraceptive knowledge.

The presentation of this, as of every other subject of discussion in this country, is of course regulated by the ordinary considerations of decency and is covered by the Obscenity Laws. These, however, make no specific reference to contraception and it is properly on a level with any other physiological theme.

It is important that this fact should be realized because there are many misapprehensions, and even actual misstatements, in popular circulation about the matter.

Colour is lent to some of these misapprehensions by the fact that there have been from time to time individual prosecutions of one or two from among the many

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