Some objections to contraception answered / by Marie Carmichael Stopes.

  • Stopes, Marie Carmichael, 1880-1958.
Date:
1931
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    the idea are serious. How true are the following words ! In my opinion the main present obstacle to the complete success of the [birth control] movement in Britain is not the arguments against it nor the reactionary irrational opposition which confronts every beneficent and simple plan for the amelioration of mankind. It is the notorious false shame of the Anglo- Saxon race. We do not like to talk seriously about the use of contraceptives.* Apparently as a result of the work of the Society for Constructive Birth Control, the huge public meetings held, and the publica tion of my books, which created a terminology and mode of thought now adopted even by our opponents, the public is now speaking seriously about these subjects, and some excellent addresses have been given by medical men on the theme. Such, for instance, as the paper read at a meeting of Medical Officers of Health by dr. Meredith young f on The Volitional Regulation of Families, and the address oí sir james * Arnold bennett: Preface in Fecundity versus Civilization, by adelyne moore. London, 1916. f Meredith young (1923) : The Volitional Regula tion of Families. Public lecture, published in Public Health, Official Organ to the Society of Medical Officers, vol. xxxvi, pp. 185-188. London, 1923.