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Show The Bar Sinister Down "All births are legitimate," declares the California Department De-partment of Public Health's statement of policy in refusing longer to designate in its vital statistics how a California infont comes into the world. "And all children are legitimately legiti-mately born." ! "If there is any illegitimacy involved, it pertains to the parents and not the children. There may be illegitimate par- ents, but it is to be deplored that many sections of our so-t'alled so-t'alled civilized society will still insist upon stigmatizing the-children. the-children. This is a relic of the dark ages and should be ! abrogated without further delay from our minds and actions." Thus California wipes from its records the age-old bar sinister and turns over a new page of history. Its action is high-minded and straight-minded. The miracle of birth must not be stigmatized by man-made morality. A child's a child for a' that. And it is to our shame that it was eyer otherwise. |