BIRTH CONTROL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21197, 1 December 1930, Page 11

BIRTH CONTROL.

THE LAMBETH RESOLUTIONS. MISCONSTRUED IN MANY QUARTERS. (Special to Daily Times.} _ WELLINGTON, November 30. More widely discussed, perhaps, than any other part of the work of the Lambeth Conference, the resolutions which dealt with birth control and the use of contraceptives were spoken of and explained by the Rt. Rev. H. Newton, Anglican Bishop of New Guinea, who returned from attending the conference by ■ij. j * : ® rua ’ The resolutions, he admitted, had been spoken about loosely and misconstrued by many people, and false impressions of their effect existed in the minds of many more. The confer* cnee, needless to say. did not condone t h e indiscriminate use of contraceptives. The resolutions of the Lambeth Conference dealing with birth control were very carefully worded and guarded, said Bishop Newton. The conference allowed tuG # use of birth control only in very special circumstances and for very special reasons, strongly condemning its Use for selfish purposes. The conference stressed the importance from every point of view of family life, and condemned birth control _as a solution of the social and economic problems of the day. It could, in tact, justify the use of contraceptives only where their use was suggested for health reasons, and even then people were only justified in using contraceptives after advice, medical and spiritual. The conference also as strongly as possible emphaslfi j i • e su P rem e importance of purity, and laid down the principle that the avoidance of consequences did not do away with the sin. « That briefly,” said ■ the bishop, " was the attitude of the Lambeth Conference towards birth control."