15 JANUARY 1937, Page 18

[To the Editor of Tun SPECTATOR."' ' Sin,—If men had

to suffer the risk to life and the agony that women do in childbirth,- the months of discomfort and frequent ill-health beforehand; often with irreparable damage to their health for life,- we should hear less of the iniquity of voluntary birth-control from them.-

Many women love their children and are willing to take the risk for their sakes apart from other reasons, but the cost of supporting large families has a restraining influence even with them. Women can no longer obtain the domestic help in housework, &c. that they _once did when more or

less incapacitated.—Yours faithfully, M. BEDFORD. The Woburn Hospital, Woburn, Bletchley.