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Harold J. Laski: “The state is not entitled to prohibit diffusion of such knowledge, or the practice of it.”

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The state is not entitled to prohibit diffusion of such knowledge, or the practice of it.
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Harold J. Laski

Editor's note · Context

Laski asserts that the state should not restrict the dissemination of knowledge about birth control.

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