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mmmammmammmmmmmmmi Hj-ss-RipaseJi-ir-iuj ji,A.Jimer9mmmmmmmMmmmmm BOLLINGER BABY CASE AGITATION MAY CARRY BIRTH CONTROL FIGHT TO CONGRESS New York, Nov. 29. Dr. Frederick H. Robinson, famous editor of the Medical Review of Reviews and lead er of the fight for birth control in the United States, announced today that as a result of the greatly dis cussed death of the little Bollinger baby in the German American hos pital in Chicago a national battle to secure the repeal of laws preventing birth control in America is to be started the minute congress con venes in Washington, Dec. 6. Dr. Robinson announced that a band of reformers has already been selected to assail the legislators when they assemble in the capital. "Three years ago," said Robinson today, "we were treated like crim inals when we attempted to get the matter before congress. But the wide discussion of the Bollinger case has made ;t impossible for the lawmak ers to ignore the subject any longer. "The Bollinger case has no direct bearing on birth control, for the mother already had had two healthy children. But the publicity which the case has received has at last swept away these barriers of silence which hitherto have kept the subject of childbirth from consideration by our great American public. "The federal law now provides a penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $5,000 for any physician who advises a patient how to avoid child birth. We have been urging the re peal of this law, but without any suc cess. "But now the outlook is very bright indeed. Reputable physicians have exonerated Dr. Haiselden of all blame for the death of the unfortu nate Bollinger child and the members of congress in view of this fact will be sure to give us a hearing. "There is no single measure that would so positively, so immediately contribute toward the happiness and Jhe progress of the human race as teaching the people the proper means of birth control. I have been drawn into this propaganda by my observa tions as a physician of the terrible suffering and misery resulting from too many children, which I have wit nessed among my friends and ac quaintances, and, in the early years of my practice, among my patients. There is not a physician who has not had many cases in his practice of families which started life well but which became quickly demoralized financially and physically by children coming in too rapid succession. "While the first child and perhaps the second are received with genuine joy, the third and fourth are met with indifference. The succeeding ones are considered catastrophes. "More than one physician has told me that fathers have endeavored to prevent them form using artificial respiration on a stillborn baby, re marking that the child was not worth bothering about. "In my opinion a working man should not have more than two chil dren under present conditions. Ev ery child after the second, and par ticularly after the third, is individu ally and racially a calamity. Besides destroying the health of the mother, too many children among wage earn ers simply gluts the market with wage slaves. "One of the most beneficial effects ' of the repeal of the laws preventing f the giving of information on birth control would be the diminution of the terrible crime of abortion. The "" present vicious laws are responsible for thousands of abortions among unmarried woman and tens of thou sands among married women in this country. "The law places family limitation and abortion on precisely the same plane; yet one is the terrible conse-1 quence of the lack- of legitimate in formation about the other. i-f.w4-