2 SEPTEMBER 1938, Page 20

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR]

SIR,—It is hardly likely that a country will legalise abortion that will not officially allow birth-control information to be given except in cases where there is danger to life.

The difference between birth-control and abortion is equivalent to the difference between prevention .and cure. Abortion involves a surgical operation, albeit a 'slight one, in order to avert consequences that might without suffering or expense have been prevented by birth-control.

The cost of the provision of birth-control clinics, at present very inadequately provided by charity, would be negligible compared with the cost of clinics for performing abortion, and in addition would not at this date outrage public opinion.—