BIRTH CONTROL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 150, 26 June 1937, Page 8

BIRTH CONTROL.

Many correspondents are hotly advocating the prohibition of the sale of contraceptive, which, they aver, will be a good thing, fort they entirely ignore the increase in the addle rate by desperate women who prefer death to social dishonour, and the huge increase of children that will be born out of wedlock and must be kept by the State. Why it is always old people who meddle in this matter k wrprising. because the matter is one that cancan the younger section of the people; and, after all, it is their own business entirely. Would it not be better for these people who keep harping about the nse of contraceptives and sex control if they did something that would preserve life instead of increasing the Bliirid* and illegitimate rale? Old people, whose useful days are over and whose enjoyment of life has fled, find every attention given them in hospitals on which money is lavished, hot what about the mother of a family! Expensive maternity homes that most women ««■- not afford to indulge in, or the St. Helens Hospital—and women do not seem to Eke to go there. They cannot afford to stay the requisite time in expensive maternity names, and often on the tenth day have to go boat, either on account of shortage of funds, or because others are waiting to take their place. The result is crippled mothers—mothers who then warn their friends against childbirth. . . Old people should not waste their time ia talking about contraceptives—their duty » to see that medical and nursing expenses of the mothers are reduced to a minimum, and that our young married couples are providednot with charity maternity homes but homes where they can have their accouchement matters attended to at minimum rates in an atmosphere of refinement and kindliness, and where doctors' extortionate bills and midwiferyextortion are unknown. U XOME.