BIRTH CONTROL OPPOSED.
l HYSICiAN’S CHALLENGE (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) LONDON, Nov. 16. “I know I am dropping a bomb,” said Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, the distinguished physician, when challenging arguments advanced by Mr. Harold Cox, editor of the ‘‘Edinburgh Review” urging wider facilities for t birth control among the lower classes and voluntary sterilisation of the unfit. “If yon are going to sterilise mental deficients, why not criminals, drunkards, and political apostates?” lie asked. Mr. Cox’s remarks were made at a lecture, over which Sir Robert Arm-strong-Jones presided. Sir Robert maintained that large families were the greatest help, the members assisting one another. He doubted if there had been any increase in mental deficiency, which had simply been made more apparent by more careful diagnosis. Mental deficiency was not bound to be inherited. His practice showed that absence of children caused neurasthenia in married women, leading to insanity. If birth control were instituted on a large scale there would be need for more lunatic asylums for women, he concluded.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 18 November 1929, Page 7
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