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ADVICE TO MARRIED WOMEN MORE FREEDOM DESIRED. Australian and N Z fnhlp Association LONDON, April 28. In the House of Lords, Lord Buckmaster moved that the* Government be requested to withdraw the instructions given to welfare committees to withhold from married women information on the limitation of families. The Archbishop of Canterbury said that there were clinics devoted especially to such knowledge, and there was no restraint on such inquiries at welfare centres. Lord Russeli claimed that every woman was entitled to such liberty. Earl Balfour said that the Opposition motion seemed based on religious grounds, but the religious people were not all on one side. He rould not see that religious people had a right to impose their ideas on ■tfomen who were helpless because of poverty, or to withhold from them informnticn available to their richer sisters. Viscount Fitzalan said he and his Catholic co-religionists would oppose such things to the end of time. The Lord Chancellor said that he feared the motion would nermit workers without medical knowledge to give advice.
The motion was agreed to hy 57 votes to 44.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12434, 30 April 1926, Page 3
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