Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-01-11 | Page 5 | Rights of Unborn Are Discussed

RIGHTS OF UNBORN AREDISCOSSED Birth Control, Poverty, Sickness Sick-ness and Abnormalities Presented Pre-sented From Varying Viewpoint. Philadelphia, Pa. Jan. 11 The rights ol the unborn child were dis-. dis-. ii. i d from widely different points of view at a symposium here last night. In discussing birth control. Dr. S. Adolphus Knopf of the Now York post-graduate post-graduate school of medicine, cited what he said wne the results of the establishing ol birth control clinics In Holland in 1881. In that ye.ir iio death rate In Holland. h' declared, was 3P. 7 prr 1.000 and in 1912 it was 25.3 per 1.000, with a corresponding Increase in the health of th.- poorer classes. The viewpoint of a public official i- given by Commissioner of Chari-tles Chari-tles Kingsbury of New York. He tateel Uia" In 1913. 10,000 children were turned over to his department for commitment to institutions, the result, re-sult, he claimed, of poverty, sickness, or other abnormalities In homes Thousands Thou-sands of children, he said, are paying the penalties of too largo families. Mr. Kingsbury declared It a serious mis-take mis-take for parents to bring babies into the world unless they are prepared physically, mentally, morally and financially fi-nancially for the addiiions to their families. BMut the unborn child has a right temporal life and to eternal life was the declaration of Rev. A. J. Bohulte, professor of liturgy in the Roman Catholic seminary of St Charles Char-les Borromeo. Father Schulte assorted as-sorted that, "It would be better for a million mothers to die rather than to have one child deprived of existence."