BLIND COUPLES
QUESTION OF STERILIZATION. VIEWS OF SIGHTLESS M.P. (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) London, August 31. “Why single out the blind?” asks Captain lan Fraser, a member of the House of Commons, who is blind, when interviewed regarding the compulsory sterilization of a blind couple before marriage following the committee's ruling that blind % persons marrying without consent and not giving an undertaking that their marriages shall be childless will be deprived of employment and financial assistance. Captain Fraser states that there are many cases of blindness not due to any transmissible cause. “I have known over a thousand blinded soldiers who have married since the war, and there has not been one single blind child from these marriages,’’ he said. “If the local authorities meddle in such matters there is no saying where it will end.”
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Southland Times, Issue 21177, 2 September 1930, Page 5
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136BLIND COUPLES Southland Times, Issue 21177, 2 September 1930, Page 5
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