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CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER VIII.
Some Objections to Contraception Answered.

The last book by the famous American writer William Hawley Smith[1] contained the following statement:—"The science of human reproduction; on a basis of choice rather than chance once discovered, and its practice actually inaugurated, its spread will be assured in due time, all over the whole earth . . . for the advantages to be thus obtained, to all parties concerned, are so many and so great that, once realized, they will be universally adopted."

Yet to-day opponents hinder the spread of the helpful knowledge of contraception: what are their stock arguments?

There are few reasoned objections to contraception, but the very large numbers of prejudiced and biased statements against the idea, are serious. How true are the

  1. ↑ William Hawley Smith: (1920). "Children by Chance or by Choice." Pp. 361. Boston, 1920. See p. 288.

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