23 JULY 1932, Page 16

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

Sin,—Like Professor W. G. Sym I have been criticizing, but on different lines, the sterilization proposals of the eugenists. One of my fears is that, by implication, they would make this useful method of birth control legal only for defectives. I advocate that no woman of the financially poorest classes should have more than two confinements (few of them Wish to have more), and that voluntary sterilization and abortion should be definitely legalized—at all events for applicants who have two children.—I am, Sir, &c.,