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Title: Conception Control and Its Effects on the Individual and the Nation

Author: Florence E. Barrett

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CONCEPTION CONTROL AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE NATION

by

FLORENCE E. BARRETT, C.B.E., M.D., M.S., B.Sc.

Consulting Obstetric and Gynaecological Surgeon to the Royal Free
Hospital. President of the Federation of Medical Women.

With a Foreword by His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.

1922

PREFACE

This small book has been written in response to many requests for some
statement regarding the individual and national effects of the
widespread practice of conception control.

It is not intended to give medical advice on the subject for, in my
judgment, that is best given to the individual by his or her medical
adviser, and will vary in different circumstances.

The question as to whether control of conception shall or shall not be
practised is a decision ethical and not medical in character when
husband and wife are healthy, and in the last resort will be decided
by the individual pair for themselves; but they will be wise to
discuss the question with their medical attendant in order to realise
all that is involved in their decision.

Space forbids anything like a full discussion of the national issues,
but that aspect of the subject demands quite as careful study as
personal needs or desires.

F.E.B.

31, DEVONSHIRE PLACE, W.1.
September, 1922.

FOREWORD

The Archbishop of Canterbury allows me to use the following letter as
a Foreword to this little book.

DEAR LADY BARRETT,

I have read with great interest the manuscript of your pamphlet. Very
many of us who have daily to do with the problems and perplexi