BIRTH CONTROL
DEBATED AT LABOUR CONFERENCE A CLOSE VOTE (Rec. October 13, 5.15 p.m.) London, October 12. “Is this , advanced as a question of health or neomalthusianism ?” asked Mr. J. R MacDonald, when women delegates tried to induce the Labour Conference to resolve in favour of empowering doctors and maternity clinics to give birth control information when sought. Mr MacDonald added that be believed a majority of the partv approved of health instruction, but he and they were most doubtful about committing members and candidates on the subject of family limitation. Amid uproar, caused by an attempt to carrv. the closure, a woman doctor delegate shouted: “Why break the party on a controversialist matter of medical science?”
Nevertheless, the closure was ■ carried. There was much excitement when the executive’s remarks opposing the inclusion of birth control in the party's programme was referred back on a card vote bv 1,656,000 to 1,620,000. '
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 16, 14 October 1926, Page 11
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