Contraception and abortion
Sir, — We need a “commission for the protection of the born child.” Many are damaged from sedatives gulped by their non-coping pregnant mothers, by transmitted tensions and rejection, by bashings, or by lack of the vital foods — love and security. Learning and emotional development are impaired and distorted. Some are impounded in successive “boarding-kennels”, some roam the streets to be impounded later, in prisons, or slowly driven to suicide with drugs or alcohol. Some feel neglected when mothers are pushed off benefits to work or subjected to no money and bashings from another alcoholic “lodger”. As a result, the children may decide never to work for anybody. We lack an S.P.C.A. for born children, yet they have feelings and emotional needs as well as bodies to be protected and fed. Violence to children erupts later on their battlefield called “life”. A society gets the children it allows, protects and deserves. — Yours, etc., DR R. HEWLAND (Society for Protection of Children) May 1, 1977.
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