PRUDENT PARENTS' VIEW
NO CHILDREN FOR SLAUGHTER
OUTSPOKEN BISHOP
(Received March 8, 11.10 a,m.)
LONDON, March 7.
In an outspoken sermon preached by the Bishop of Birmingham, the Et. Rev. E. W. Barnes, to students of Oxford University today, he said that prudent parents would not and should not bring children into the world if they were to be ill fed and ill housed. The strength of the pacifist movement showed how thoughtful people hated the waste of war and refused to bear children who might be engulfed in a pitiless war. That was natural enough.
Education also had made men and women acutely sensitive to harsh conditions in industry. Modern England had no tyrant like the industrial magnate whose work people enjoyed no security or tenure and often worked for mere sustenance while he made a fortune. There was no doubt that war and industrial tyranny were anti-Christian forces making for small families. ' .
He added that he could not think it was right to keep alive individuals whom doctors knew to be doomed from birth to a sub-human.existence.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1937, Page 9
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