STERILISATION OF UNFIT
SUPPORTED BY A BISHOP. (Received Saturday, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, Friday. Supporting proposed legislation for voluntary sterilisation, Bishop Southwark, writing in the “Diocesan Gazette,” said that, provided voluntary consent was fully safeguarded, and tho patient or legal representative allowed to seek advice from an appropriate religious body there was no reason for clerical opposition. Each ease must bo judged on its moral merits. Civilised mankind is equipped with the knowledge of power which his forefathers lacked, and faced an enlarged responsibility in determining the mental and physical characteristics of posterity. We could not evade the duty of deciding what use could rightly be made of increasing knowledge, which might be regarded as a call to mankind from the Creator to co-operatc more closely in his beneficent purposes.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 March 1935, Page 5
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