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CONTRACEPTION

should be nipped in all the buds they show. Individuals showing these traits definitely should not be allowed to reproduce."[1]

Moreover, the time has come when the ordinary patient is no longer content to be kept in ignorance by her medical practitioner, and when she is learning that if her own doctor refuses her or is incapable of giving her the information she demands, there are other sources of knowledge and other doctors who will comply with her reasonable request.

So long as such facts as appear in the Annual Report of the Ministry of Health are true, so long will women continue to demand that their sacrifice shall be made at least voluntarily. "The death-rate of women in childbirth remains approximately what it was twenty-five years ago, and we lose by death every year upwards of 3,000 mothers . . . a substantial number of the 700,000 who gave birth to children in 1919 were so injured or disabled in pregnancy or childbirth as to make them chronic invalids."[2]

Individual practitioners, therefore, all

  1. ↑ Knight Dunlap (1920): "Personal Beauty and Racial Betterment." Pp. 95. London, 1920.
  2. ↑ Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health. London, 1920. See p. 44.

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