BIRTH CONTROL NEEDED
JAPANESE SPEAKERS’ VIEW£ MANUFACTURING HUMAN BULLETS Speakers at the Nippon Birth Control League warned Japanese women against continuing to “over-manu-facture human bullets.” They said that mothers were just as responsible as Zaibatsu—the prewar industrial and financial combine —for the war. The meeting, attended by 1500 doctors and lay members, criticised the Japanese Government for its failure to implement a birth control programme. It was pointed out that two years after the war, only five or six birth control clinics were operating in the country, all privately operated, and all needing a subsidy. ' Speakers said that 26 per cent, of Japanese married couples believed they were practising birth control, but only two per cent. were.doing it effectively. Most speakers saw the need for a big education campaign to overcome the wartime “increase of population”' slogans of the militarists. According to statistics, postwar births have been 2,500,000 annually.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 69, 20 August 1947, Page 7
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149BIRTH CONTROL NEEDED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 69, 20 August 1947, Page 7
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