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...Committee on Social Welfare held a public hearing last Thursday on House Bill 520, which would repeal the current Massachusetts laws on birth control. The committee listened to testimony that Massachusetts is one of two states which still prohibit the distribution of birth control information and devices to unmarried people. They heard ecology workers describe the dangers of the population explosion. They heard a psychologist explain that the current laws discriminate against the poor. They heard a gynecologist state that laws prohibiting contraceptives encourage illegal abortions. And they heard a doctor in the Department of Public Health testify that...
Room 480 of the State House overflowed with witnesses and spectators yesterday as the Massachusetts Legislative Committee on Social Welfare held public hearings on a bill which would repeal the current laws on birth control...
House bill 520, introduced by Representative. Mary Newman (R-Cambridge), calls for total repeal of all laws dealing with birth control. "This is a moral decision for the individual to make, which the state should have no control over," Mrs. Newman said...
Opponents of the bill said that repeal of the laws on birth control would encourage sexual immorality in Massachusetts. "God never intended people to have sex-outside of marriage," Representative William Carey (R-Suffolk) said. "Young people today believe that God put them on earth for the purpose of enjoying each other sexually. If we don't stop this, this country will go straight to hell...
Some of his suggestions-repeal the minimum wage so employers can afford to hire the unskilled, reduce the school-leaving age to 14-are not likely to be enacted, he concedes...