Passed in 1873 at the instigation of a zealous and abstemious reformed masturbator and head of the Committee for the Suppression of Vice, for ten points, give the more common name of this "Act of the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use" that prohibited the dissemination of pornography through the mail.
In 1971, Congress removed the language about contraception, and federal courts until Roe V. Wade ruled that it applied only to "unlawful" abortions, but this wording was reinstated by Henry Hyde in the Telecommunications Decency Act. Passed in 1873 at the instigation of a zealous and abstemious reformed masturbator and head of the Committee for the Suppression of Vice, for ten points, give the more common name of this "Act of the Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use" that prohibited the dissemination of pornography through the mail.
In 1971, Congress removed the language about contraception, and federal courts until Roe V. Wade ruled that it applied only to "unlawful" abortions, but this wording was reinstated by Henry Hyde in the Telecommunications Decency Act.
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