Show DOC DO TO R DECLARES HE WilL MILL 1 i i DEFY I THE THEL l W CHICAGO Api April 11 8 8 Radical I Is I's s sociologists may have to abdicate to regular physicians their position of promulgating at- at ing the doctrine of-birth of control This I Inas Iwas was nas tho the advice of a number of ot s takers takI tak- I ers at a meeting of ot the Chicago Medical Medical Medical Medi Medi- cal society v The The meeting abounded in unusual statements Dr H H. J. J J J. 1 Haiselden of ot Baby Hollings fame announced that i he expected to perform en nn abortion ona on ona 1 a case on which he Is working He lIe I is uncertain yet whether he will first I notify the health department i Dr Anna Blount deprecated the fact taCt that while the Harvard graduate has I three quarters of a son and the Vassar Vassar Vassar Vas- Vas sar graduate graduato half halt halfa a daughter aughter the families of the tho feeble minded in the United States average eight children i I 1 Lambert Tragedy Cited I Dr Rachelle Yanos x hio nho ho was not 1 present but whose paper was read by Dr Alice Hamilton I stated that if th the I dissemination of knowledge on contraception contraception contra- contra were prohibited such tragedies tragedies goe- goe I dies as ns th the death of Marian Lambert I would have been averted 1 Dr Robert L. L Dickinson of Brooklyn Brooklyn Brook- Brook BrookI I I lyn asserted that he is a confessed criminal criminal in that he furnished information information rma- rma tion regarding the control of birth I I r T have under my care said D D. Haiselden a a woman of 20 years ear who iI has a baby six months old Another ler lerIs I 1 Is expected to arrive in five months j Tho husband is subnormal subnormal 1 The TIle mother of the wife has been in m the tho insane asylum An uncle of the father I l Is U a moron The father is 13 coming t lo to lomo mo ml for sterilization at his request and he wants giants his baby bo boy sterilized I I int Intend nd i. i to perform an a abortion orti n on on that woman A possible o is that a as the law Is enforced in Chicago it il is only when a a woman dies that abortion abortion abortion abor abor- tion Is a crime Dr Haiselden was cheered He remarked remarked remarked re- re marked that it might be his last speech I r Continued on mi page 11 I DOCTOR DECLARES Continued from page 6 5 before th the C Chicago Medical society The recommendation for his dismissal from froin the the society by the ethical relations committee Will be acted on next month Active Campaign Urged It is a mistake asserted Dr Tarros Tarros Yaros Tar Tar- I ros ros os rosto oso to o think that mere removal of I l legislation which prevents e education oh on these matters would serve Our social socia ne need needs qs s. s It is necessary in a addition to that to undertake a rational and active campaign among our population to re remove remove remove re- re move the religious so called moral and old fashioned medical reasons against birth control As physicians we are In a position to know that hundreds of children are born in conditions physical 1 and moral which h mean mea neglect sub subsequent quent delinquency delinquency delin deUn- quency quency vice and crime Who of us has not heard the heartbroken appeals of many decent honest working women women women wo wo- wo- wo men or women of the middle class worn out from the struggle to care for the children they already have and appealIng appealing appealing appeal appeal- ing for lor relief from the impending calami calamity ty Get Relief Somewhere We Ve refuse Defuse to perform an abortion But these women leave to get relief somewhere regardless of of- infection Invalidism invalidism invalidism in- in I or death It is claimed that dissemination I of knowledge of contraception would lea lead to great laxity among young unmarried unmarried unmarried un un- un- un married persons This might happen to some sorrie degree but would the consequences consequences consequences conse conse- be worse than those which stare us- us daily in the face and which we read about In the newspapers There is not even a radical Womans woman's womans womans woman's wo wo- mans man's club that will touch the subject of birth control said Dr Blount But statistics indicate that scientific and intellectual m men n ar are arp having smaller maller and smaller families The rich can get the information by paying a fee to a physician I r agree that there must be he a bad moral effect on women as the result of the great number of abortions We Va need heed needa heeda a propaganda of voluntary motherhood We need to make it fashionable to have children good children good ch children |