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CONTRACEPTION

to have children, and it is true that if she does have a child she should not suckle, but it is not right that a woman with heart disease should be forbidden to marry. Yet unless contraceptives are used she runs the risk of repeated pregnancies.]

While considering indications for contraception from the medical point of view it is not out of place to note the reasons guiding married women who have spontaneously adopted it. Data on such a point are, of course, difficult to get, but a very interesting paper has recently been published on the results of a questionnaire in America.[1] Out of the first thousand replies received from normal married women 734 expressed approval of voluntary parenthood and only 78 expressed disapproval of preventive means.

Other conditions in many homes certainly point to the advisability of contraception. The following are additional and among the commonest reasons for the use of contraceptives.

  1. The persistent drunkenness of one or other of the potential parents.

The medical world is now too well

  1. ↑ Katherine B. Davis, Ph.D. (1922): "A Study of the Sex Life of the Normal Married Woman, made by the Bureau of Social Hygiene in Co-operation with a Special Committee." Journ. Soc. Hygiene, vol. 8, pp. 173-189. New York: 1922.

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