BIRTH CONTROL RAID
HEW YORK CHARGES DISMISSED NEW YORK, August 3." The case against two women doctors and three, nurses who were arrested in the raid bv women police on the Birth Control Research .Clinical Bureau here has been dismissed. The charge against them was “_’lIcgal dissemination of birth control information.” The evidence was obtained by a policewoman who posed as the wife of a truck driver. - The magistrate held that the police had not proved that the advice given to the woman was not necessary to her health. The Jaw permitted doctors and nurses to give advice on hittb control where health considerations were concerned. Mrs Mary Sullivan, director of the Women’s Bureau of the New York Police Department, was removed from her post a few' days ago as the result of the many protests against the methods of the women police on the occasion of the above-mentioned raid.
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Evening Star, Issue 20257, 19 August 1929, Page 9
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150BIRTH CONTROL RAID Evening Star, Issue 20257, 19 August 1929, Page 9
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