''Birth Control'' (also known as ''The New World'') is a

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1917 American documentary film produced by and starring

Margaret Sanger Margaret Higgins Sanger (born Margaret Louise Higgins; September 14, 1879September 6, 1966), also known as Margaret Sanger Slee, was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. Sanger popularized the term "birth control ...

and describing her

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work. It was the first film banned under the 1915 ruling of the

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in '' Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio'', which held that the exhibition of films did not constitute free speech. The banning of ''Birth Control'' was upheld by the

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on the grounds that a film on

may be censored "in the interest of morality, decency, and public safety and welfare."''Message Photo-Play Co., Inc. V. Bell''
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department. 179 App. Div. 13 (N.Y. App. Div. 1917).

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