A controversy surrounding Mary Rogers was blamed on a woman who ran a business for this practice named Madame Restell, who pulled from Charles Knowlton's The Fruits of Philosophy. Mary Dennett co-founded a national organization that promoted this practice. Fania Mindell and Ethyl Byrne helped spread this practice to Brooklyn. C. Lee Butxon, an advocate of this practice, was (*) fined $100, leading to a 1965 Supreme Court case in which William O. Douglas discussed ■END■