BIRTH CONTROL

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 October 1931, Page 8

BIRTH CONTROL

. SYDNEY CONTROVERSY SYDNEY, October 15, Controversy is being waged between Sydney churchmen over the question of birth control and whether it should be* taught to young people. Speaking before the Racial Hygiene Society. Bishop Moyes (Church of England) said: — “We must teach the young people about to be married the need for birth control allied to self-control—teach them to plan the number of children They are to have, and that sox comradeship is the best road to happiness,” | said the Bishop. He declared that it 'was time for a nation-wide campaign in sex instruction. “We must concentrate on a line of attack,” headed, “and that line must be the young folk who are about to be married. Parents simply will not instruct their children when they have the opportunity.” On the other hand, Archbishop Kelly (Roman Catholic) speaking at the annual conference of the Hibernian Australian Catholic Benefit Societies declared that those who practised birth control were false to themselves and to the human race. “Those who prevent life as created by God are as guilty of a crime against society as those who take it away,” he said. • The general attitude of the church to “this greatest of social evils,” as the archbishop put it, was well expressed in the action of the Christian Brothers, of New Zealand, who discouraged their pupils from becoming chemists, as chemists were made the moans of distributing instruments of homicide.”