KNOWLEDGE MUST BE FREE TO ALL.
FAMILY LIMITATION AND WELFARE CENTRES. Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copy right. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received April 29, 1 p.m.) LONDON. April 28. In the House of Lords, Lord Buckmaster moved that the Government be requested to withdraw the instructions given to welfare committees for withholding from married women information on the limitation of families. The Archbishop of Canterbury said: —“There are clinics devoted specially to such knowledge and there is no restraint on such inquiries in welfare centres.” Lord Russell claimed that every woman was entitled to such liberty’. Lord Balfour said that the opposition to the motion seemed to be based on religious grounds, but religious people were not all on one side. He could not see that religious people had a right to impose their ideas on women who were helpless, because of poverty’, or withhold from them information available to their richer sisters. Lord Fitzalan said that he and his Catholic co-religionists would oppose such things to the end of -time. The Chancellor said he feared that the motion would permit workers without medical knowledge to give advice. The motion was agreed to by 57 to 44..
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17833, 29 April 1926, Page 5
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