BRITISH LIBERALS
WOMEN’S FEDERATION BIRTH CONTROL SUPPORTED By Cable. —Press Association. —Copyright LONDON, Wednesday. More than 1,100 delegates attended a meeting of the Women’s National Liberal Federation. By an overwhelming majority they passed a resolution in favour of scientific birth control, as providing a means of increasing the efficiency of the nation.
Lady Ackland said there were people who were shocked at the idea that mothers should be able to choose how many people they would bring into the world, but they could leave that to a generation which regarded population as “cannon fodder.” Miss Emma Samuel aroused loud laughter by declaring tha£ she was 30 years old, and that men and women of her age felt that people were living too long. As they could not be put to death they should be prevented from being born. Otherwise they would all starve in the streets. The conference decided that information about birth control should be made available at the centres of the Ministry of Health. A motion favouring allowances for children was defeated. Lady Bonham Carter, a daughter of the Earl of Oxford, said a dole would enable the profligate to multiply at the expense of the thrifty.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 37, 6 May 1927, Page 5
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