ABORTION PROBLEM.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20268, 10 August 1937, Page 8

ABORTION PROBLEM.

DUNEDIN INVESTIGATIONS CASES OF MARRIED WOMEN. CATHOLIC ATTITUDE STATED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, Tuesday. A decision to form a committee to act with similar committees throughout the Dominion in considering possible measures for alleviating the abortion problem as revealed in the McMillan Report was reached last evening at a meeting of various bodies which was addressed by Dr. Dawson. Professor of Midwifery and Gynaecology. Dr. Dawson considered that the annual abortion average might be nearer 7000 than 6000. He added that it was by no means a single girl problem. His investigations showed that of a total of 733 consecutive abortion cases admitted to the Dunedin Hospital only 89 were single women. On the other hand a group of married women who had between 4 and 7 children constituted 48.7 per cent, of the total casesMonsignor Morkane, stating the attitude of the Roman Catholic Church, said it would oppose any suggestion for widening legal facilities for abortion, whether criminal or so-called therapeutic, because there was no difference in the Church’s eyes. “I dissociate myself and the Church from any suggestion that there should be legislation to widen the scope of therapeutic abortion,” he said “I dissociate myself and the Church from any suggestion of legislation to establish birth control clinics where people can be taught this evil. Similarly, do I dissociate myself and the Church from connivance on the part of the Government and newspapers In the sale of these goods that bring about abortion so frequently.”