SCIENCE OF EUGENICS.
DENOUNCED BY A CARDINAL
Times' —'Sydney Sun' Special Cables. (Received Last Night, 6.40 o'clock.)
WASHINGTON, August 13,
Cardinal Gibbons has denounced the science of eugenics as an infringement'of personal liberty. Marriage, he says, is something sacred, and no civil law should interfere. Of -the various States which have passed legislation 'aiming at sterilising criminals, only two are enforcing the Wff.... • ••'. • • '
- [lt was; Recently cabled that another State had decided that a medical certificate of fitness must be produced . before a marriage certificate was issued.]
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 August 1913, Page 5
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87SCIENCE OF EUGENICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 August 1913, Page 5
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