BIRTH CONTROL.
ACCESS TO kNOVV’LEDGE. By Telegraph—Presa Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received May 12, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, May 11. A deputation including Mr H. . G. Wells and, Mrs Bertrand Russell, asked Mr J. Wheatley, Minister of Health, to remove the embargo against the giving of information relating to methods of birth control at maternity centres. Mr Wheatley replied )ihat a distinction must be drawn between allowing access to knowledge, and its actual distribution. Nobody would seriously ’maintain, that access to should be forbidden, but public opinion was not definite enough to allow the State, or Municipal undertakings, to do more than indicate, where the knowledge wjis obtainable.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17347, 12 May 1924, Page 11
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