"Why Single Out the Blind?"
CHILDLESS MARRIAGES, SIGHTLESS M.P. SPEAKS HIS MIND. SUGGESTION OF STEEILI- - (Received 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, August 30. "Why single out the blind?" asked Captain lan Fraser, a blind member of the House of Commons, -when interviewed regarding tlie compulsory Sterilisation of a blind couple befor* marriage, following the Committee s ruling that blind persons marrying without consent and not giving an undertaking that the marriages shall he childless will be deprived of employment and financial assistance. Captain Fraser states there are. many oases of blindness uot due to any transmissible cause. ''l have known over a "thousand blinded soldiers married since the war and there has'not been a singlo blind child from those marriages. If local authorities meddle in such matters tnere is no Baying where it will end."
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 29, 1 September 1930, Page 5
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