STERILISATION OF UNFIT
WOMEN’S GUILD’S DEMAND LONDON, June 12. Twelve hundred delegates at the annual conference of the Women’s Cooperative Guild almost unanimously agreed to demand legislation to ensure the compulsory sterilisation of the unfit. Mrs Enever, of Leytonstone, said: “We must not be squeamish about the matter of sterilisationj which is already much practised by the upper classes. Doctors are prepared to take the consequences. The nation’s welfare must come before religious objections.’’
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 139, 15 June 1931, Page 8
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