ractising chemists, doctors,
hospital departments or clinics, and that their sale by other persons
should be illegal and subject to severe penalty.

Evidence placed before the Committee showed that, a profit up to 300
per cent. was being made on contraceptive appliances.

We recommend that the restriction on the advertisement of
contraceptives should be more rigidly enforced, and particularly that
the promiscuous advertisement and sale of contraceptives by "mail
order" agencies should be made illegal.

We recommend that it should be made unlawful to supply contraceptives
to young persons.

Difficulties and possibilities of evasion are of course obvious, but,
nevertheless, similar restrictions have been applied with at least some
measure of success in other directions.

We would also appeal to the Pharmaceutical Society and to the
individual chemists, since the responsibility rests so largely with
them, to co-operate most earnestly in this matter.

With regard to abortifacients, the recommendations we later make apply
with even greater force to unmarried women.

Several witnesses, speaking on behalf of women's organizations,
advocated the introduction of women police for the guidance and
protection of the young in places of public resort.

Reference to the effect of alcohol on moral restraint has already been
made.

The second big consideration is the care of the unmarried woman who is
in trouble.

It has been suggested that if there were a more tolerant attitude
towards such girls many who now resort to abortion would be prepared to
go forward and face the future.

As one witness stated:--

"She should be treated with the greatest tenderness. Usually she is
more sinned against than sinning; but she carries all the blame
which belongs not only to the man but also to society, which has
been guilty of supine acquiescence in the surrender of standards of
moral conduct.

"She has to give birth to a child which has the rights of every
unborn infant; and she has to re-establish herself in the
community.... It is terribly difficult for them afterwards with the
child, and they need all the help they can get. It seems to me that
some of them must go in sheer dread to the abortionist. My definite
opinion is that something more needs to be done."

In all fairness to the many fine organizations which are helping these
girls, the Committee is satisfied that there is no la