Foreign News: Bishop's Bonfire

In its sombre, churchlike chamber the House of Lords last week considered the serious subject of birth control. A bill, already past its first reading, was before the House to regulate the sale of contraceptives, liberalize birth control instruction. Proponent of the bill was a weighty champion. King George's own physician, Lord Dawson of Penn.

"My Lords!" cried he, "properly carried out in the married state, birth control is not only necessary, but is a part of our social fabric. To oppose it is just to beat the air. We can no longer have...

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