BISHOP’S VIEWS
SUPPORT OF VOLUNTARY STERILISATION
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, March 22.
Supporting the proposed legislation for voluntary sterilisation, the Bishop of Southwark, writing in the “Diocesan Gazette,” said provided voluntary consent is fully safeguarded, and the patient or legal representative allowed to seek advice from an appropriate religious body there was no reason for clerical opposition. Each case must be judged on the moral merits. Civilised mankind is equipped with knowledge ana power which their forefathers lacked, and faced enlarged responsibility In determining the mental and physical characteristics of posterity We could not evade the duty of deciding what use could rightly be made of the Increasing knowledge, which might be regarded as a call to mankind from the Creator to co-operate more closely in his beneficent purposes.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20066, 25 March 1935, Page 11
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131BISHOP’S VIEWS Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20066, 25 March 1935, Page 11
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