BIRTH CONTROL.
Received July 12, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, July 11
Dr Drysdale, president, at the opening of the fifth International Birth Control Conference, said the whole world was ready for the doctrine of birth control. East and West were ready to meet on this fundamental human need to-day. All organised opposition was dead, except in the case of the Roman Catholic Church, which was of the greatest value to the movement by its naked display of bigotry and intolerance. Clergy of all denominations vied with doctors and lawyers in having the smallest families. The only practicable method of securing social purity was the promotion of sexual purity through the advocacy of general early marriage, rendered possible by 'the removal of fear of large families. Twenty million people had adopted family limitation in the last forty-five years.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18531, 13 July 1922, Page 5
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