Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 37, Number 25. 25th September 1974
Catholic Women's League - Island Bay Branch
Catholic Women's League - Island Bay Branch
Dear Fellow Parishoner,
Have you written to any Member of Parliament asking him:
To vote in Favour of the Hospitals Amendment Bill which is a Bill now before Parliament to permanently close the Abortion Clinic (Medical Aid Centre) in Auckland and so prevent any further private clinics being opened for abortion.
To oppose any Future amendment to the present law on abortion.
To vote Against the proposed change in the Police Offences Act which will give Children Under 16 legal access to contraceptives.
Easy abortion encourages general promiscuity and causes a rapid rise in Venereal Disease.
Apart from the moral side of killing the unborn which I consider as murder, the psychological effects are often traumatic and can make a girl unfit for marriage.
Contraceptives for children encourage precocious and promiscuous sex with the danger of V.D. It will damage psychologically for life and for future marriage.
Many of our sons who wish and try to be chaste will find it much harder if young girls solicit them with the statement that they are "on the Pill".
Women on the Pill often have to switch from one kind to another dodging morbid side-effects. Youngsters won't bother.
The agitation for easy abortion, "pills for kids", legally acceptable sodomy, erosion of censorship, universal compulsory sex-education are attacks on the Family. Family life, based on durable marriage is the ' only safeguard for an orderly society.
If our Members of Parliament are not confronted with the wishes of the "man in the street" who is raising the New Zealander of today and tomorrow, we will have only ourselves to blame. Help them to help us......Write now Address it to: