BIRTH CONTROL.
BILL IN HOUSE OF LORDS. LORD DAWSON’S VIEWS. LONDON, February 13. In the House of Lords Lord Dawson of Penn, moving the second reading of a Bill to restrict the display and advertisements of contraceptives, and making it an offence to sell articles or send advertisements to unmarried perisons under eighteen, said that birth control was here to stay. It had become part and parcel of our social fabric. If birth control was more widely accepted in theory, as it already was in practice, the trade in these things would go into normal channels and there would bo no need to present lurid shop-window displays. No religious or civil authority in the past had ever suppressed birth control. Its opponents were mostly aged and middle-aged people, but younger parents practised it, but did not talk about it. Though the large Victorian families were enviable, few would boldly advocate them to-day. The biological laws were unchanged. It must either be that or smaller families through contraception. The Bill was read a second time by 45 votes to 6.
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Wairarapa Age, 15 February 1934, Page 2
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