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Show Facts Show That Birth Control Cannot Prove Cure for Crime By DR. EDWARD N. EWER, Presi Jerit California Medical Association. The birth rate in the United States has declined more than 30 per cent in the last thirty years and is still declining, "without the assistance of clinics or other birth control ballyhoo." Intelligence tests are not infallible. The evolution "flare-up" of last year resulted in the passage of laws by certain states making such states unsafe for science. The extravagant claims made for birth control by its votaries stamp it as the most pretentious as well as the most bizarre of the servist cults. Birth controllers hold out birth restrictions as the remedy for crime, ignorance, poverty, underfeeding, bad housing, tuberculosis, degeneracy, alcoholism and mental defectiveness. The eugenists would breed them all away. Some of these things have decreased during the time our birth rate has been falling 30 per cent, and some of them have not. Crime in every form has greatly increased in spite of our falling birth rate. |
