BIRTH CONTROL.

Evening Star, Issue 20982, 22 December 1931, Page 1

BIRTH CONTROL.

TO TSE BDITOK.' Sir, —The inevitable question and the most important subject of birth control has cropped up at this time.of economic stress, and the manvisides .afid. angles of: view for and against this vital question niake interesting reading. We live in a beautiful world, but the conditions are not utopian because of the people in it. If life was, one round of joy and pleasure and nothing to mar happiness and if everybody could be perfect, even then birth control would become necessary when the world’s saturation point of support was reached. We all know the dangers that beset us on every hand—strife, want, suffering that the flesh is heir to, to say nothing of the cause of.wars, the struggle for a “ place in the sun ” that was the familiar phrase of the Gernian people prior to the Great War. Considering - all these, I would prefer to agree with the small family' advocates. As for those who .possess large families and to_ those who would agree with these principles, I feel sure a visit to crowded cities of Europe, especially the slums of London, would change their views. It would have been better if many of these poor people had never been born. I refer your readers to a case recently in England of - a woman being tried for abortion. This poor woman had nine children, and could not support any more. Rash measures are often taken by expectant mothers to bring about: certain results, to the great danger to life of themselves and child, but proper precautions would obviate this risk. The pains of childbirth are Nature’s deterrent, and from the cradle to the grave life is beset with dangers, while the anxiety of the mother is almost continuous. In conclusion, the world as we find it is no place into which to bring children indiscriminately, especially in these hard times. When the means of life are better distributed and when-the world’s population is brought under control we shall have achieved something towards a perfect and utopian State to which the world is for ever evolving.—l am, etc., B. E. Kite. December 22.