BIRTH CONTROL
FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. LONDON, July 11. Dr Drvsdale, president, at the opening of the fifth international birth control conference, said the whole world was ready for the doctrine of birth control. East and West were ready to meet on this fundamental human need to-day. All organised opposition was dead except in the case of the Roman Catholio Church, which was of the greatest value to the movement by its naked display of bigotry and intolerance. Clergy of all denominations vied with doctors and lawyers in having the smallest families. The only practicable method of securing social puritv was the promotion of sexual purity. He thought the advocacv of general early marriage would be rendered possible by the removal of the fear of large families. Twenty million people had adopted family limitation in the last 45 years.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3566, 18 July 1922, Page 23
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138BIRTH CONTROL Otago Witness, Issue 3566, 18 July 1922, Page 23
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