BIRTH CONTROL
ACCEPTANCE IN THEORV URGED HILL TO UF.STRICT ADVF.IH ISING t (.Received February 14, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, February 13. Lord Dawson of Penn, moving the second reading in tire House of Lords of a bill to restrict the display of advertisements of contraceptives and making it an offence to sell articles or send advertisements to unmarried people under 18, said birth control was here to stay and had become part and parcel of the social fabric. If birth control were more widely accepted m theory, as it already was in practice, the trade in these things would go through normal channels and would not need the present lurid show-window displays. No religious or civil authority in the past had ever suppressed birth control. Its opponents were mostly aged and middle-aged; but younger persons practised and did not talk about it. Though the larger Victorian families were enviable, few would boldly advocate them to-day. Yet biological laws were unchanged, and it must be either that or smaller families through contraception. The bill was read a second time by 45 voles to six.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21090, 15 February 1934, Page 9
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