TRAGIC EVILS
DOMINION'S PROBLEM Reference to the recent investigations of abortion and maternity services in New Zealand was made by the Minister of Health, the Hon. P. Fraser, when addressing the annual meeting of the Dominion Federation of the Women's Institutes in Wellington. "We are faced with gravely important and in some respects tragic problems," said Mr. Fraser, speaking of the two reports that rad been presented to Parliament on the questions mentioned. "One of those reports dis.closed the tragic incidence of abortion.' Some of these problems can be dealt with by laws and amended legislation restricting certain activities, but, however effective or ineffective the steps we take may be, the question is in the last instance a moral and a spiritual one. "The measure in which wc can get rid of these tragic evils will depend upon the extent to which the spiritual and moral outlook of the women of the community can be uplifted. That is one of the great works confronting the country."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19698, 2 August 1938, Page 13
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166TRAGIC EVILS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19698, 2 August 1938, Page 13
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