Born to rule
CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS
Dr William Shockley of Stanford University called for a mandatory birth control involving government permission for each conception. . . . All girls would be temporarily sterilised by time-capsule contraceptives. When a couple chose to have a child a public health doctor would remove the contraceptive on presenta- tion of a certificate. (The Times.) With the up-to-date progressive Liberty is not excessive.
Dr Shockley can't believe A girl ought often to conceive— Thinks that as a general rule She should wear a time-capsule, Just in case—so when she errs Nothing untoward occurs. Then if they decide that, maybe, Hygiene now requires a baby, They will give her, as they term it, A Child Production (Single) Permit, Take the capsule off and when The child's born put it on again. They'll arrange it for the best In the public interest.
The only thing he does not say Is who it is he means by they.
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