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Medical Association finally accepted birth control as a public health measure officially. This made the movement “respectable,” except, as I've said, in Massachusetts and Connecticut. However, it didn't make it universally accepted or universally used, and the people who most need it, like women on relief, are still having a hard time getting it in a city like Chicago and in New York, I'm sure, where we've had a fight in the last four years about it. And I'm sure this is true everywhere, that Catholic doctors and ignorance prevent people most in need of help from getting it.

Then the stamp of approval from the AMA was only the first step.

That's right.

It was, I suppose, a little like Congress authorizing an idea but never actually appropriating the money.

That's right.

In Connecticut and Massachusetts, legally the information is denied to women, even to those who will die if they don't get it, now, as of today.

Why does this linger on in those two states?