SHAW'S OPINION.
STERILISATION DISCUSSION. LONDON, Octobcr 20. Commenting on Bishop Barnes' advocacy of sterilisation of the unfit, Mr. Bernard Shaw said: "If sterilisation had been practised, I should not have been allowed to come into existence. People should be allowed to live until they prove themselves unfit. Let people enter the world, see what mess they make of it, and if they are unfit then do away with them. There are no normal individuals." Father Francis Woodlock declared that Catholic theology reverenced human personality, and had maintained throughout the Centuries that sterilisation was an unpennissible immorality. Dr. Norwood, headmaster of Harrow, said sterilisation might prove a dreadful tyranny, placing the poor and the ignorant at a great disadvantage. Sir William Arbutlinot Lane, the eminent surgeon, said sterilisation must conic. He would like to see the Church participate in this Christian social service. Advocating sterilisation in an address at Liverpool Cathedral, the Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. Barnes, said: "Men do not gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles. Blind humanitarianism is neither Christian nor sensible."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 259, 2 November 1933, Page 7
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