Abstract

<h3>LONDON</h3> (From Our Regular Correspondent) Nov. 30, 1935. <h3>The Birth Control Controversy</h3> At present there is a controversy on the subject of birth control. On the whole the medical profession is in favor of birth control under certain circumstances, while it is opposed by certain ecclesiastics, on religious or moral grounds, and is entirely condemned by the Roman church. At the Hunterian Society a debate was opened by the bishop of St. Albans, who entirely opposed birth control by artificial means. He had a strong intuitive sense that the whole thing was wrong and degrading, and in all esthetic and moral judgments the intuitive sense was not to be disregarded. Birth control was a deliberate frustration of the biologic ends of nature. Self control he exalted as the thing which differentiated man from the animal. Dr. C. P. Blacker, secretary of the Eugenics Society, said that the central question was

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