TRAGIC PROBLEMS
CONFRONTING THE DOMINION. MORAL OUTLOOK OF WOMEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Reference to the recent investigations of abortion and maternity services in New Zealand was made by the Minister of Health, the Hon P. Fraser, when addressing the annual meeting of the Dominion Federation of the Women's Institute in the Town Hall, Wellington, yesterday. “We are faced with gravely important and in some respects tragic problems,” said Mr Fraser, speaking of the two reports that had been presented to Parliament on the questions mentioned. “One of those reports disclosed the tragic incidence of abortion, and in some instances septic abortion. Some of these problems can be dealt with by laws and amended legislation restricting certain activities, but, however effective or ineffective the steps we take may be, the question is in the last instance a moral and a spiritual one. The measure in which we can get rid of these tragic evils will depend upon the extent to which the spiritual and' moral outlook of the women of the community can be uplifted. That is one of the great works confronting the country.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 July 1938, Page 12
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187TRAGIC PROBLEMS Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 July 1938, Page 12
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