[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I beg the
hospitality of your columns to thank Mr. Eldon Moore for the article on sterilization which appeared in your issue of July 2nd ? It is, I think, time that attention was called to the fact that there is at present one distinct law fin.
the rich and another for the poor. Must we wait for a test case or an Enabling Act, as Mr. Moore suggests, before the general practitioner at least can clearly know how he stands in the matter of voluntary sterilization I suggest that a law' which can prosecute him for performing the operation in a hospital and yet can allow hint free scope to do precisely the same thing for a patient of private means is as dangerous as it is patently unfair. The feeling that the rich alone are able to purchase the aid and information they require is widespread and, with regard to birth control, owing to the lack of clinics, perfectly justifiable. The discontent born of this feeling creates a bitterness difficult to cure ; and, if it continues to spread at its present rate, will cause lasting social harm. This is not the least important side to the question.—I am, Sir, &c., A CLINIC WORKER.
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