Title
Sec. 45. [Advertisement or sale of secret drug, etc., for females--Obscene notices.] (1881)
Description
This 1881 Nebraska law prohibits the sale or advertisement of "secret drug, etc. for females," referencing the definitions and restrictions on "obscenity" in the Comstock Act of 1873.
Source
https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.sstatutes/cssnepris0001&i=677
Publisher
HeinOnline
Date
1881
Contributor
Cecily Lawton
Text
Sec. 45. [Advertisement or sale of secret drug, etc., for females--Obscene notices.] --If the publishers of any newspaper in the state, shall print or publish any advertisement of any secret drug or nostrum, purporting to be exclusively for the use of females, or if any druggist or other person shall sell or keep for sale, or shall give away any such secret drug or nostrum, purporting to be exclusively for the use of females; or if any person shall, by printing or writing, or in any other way publish an account or description of any drug, medicine, instrument, or apparatus for the purposes of preventing conception, procuring abortion or miscarriage, or shall, by writing or printing in any circular, newspaper, pamphlet, or book, or in any other way publish or circulate any obscene notice, or shall, within the State of Nebraska, keep for sale or gratuitous distriution, any newspaper, circular, pamphlet, or book containing such notice of such drugs, instruments, or apparatus, or shall keep for sale, or gratuitous distribution, any secret nostrum, drug or medicine for the purpose of perventing conception, procuring abortion, or miscarriage; such person or persons so violating any of the provisions of this section, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding six months, or both, at the discretion of the court; Provided, That nothing in this section shall be so construed as to affect teaching in regular chartered medical colleges, or the publication of standard medical books.