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Women’s ClubJGroup Backs Birth ControlUrge Elimination of Law Banning Sending of Information]A resolution indorsing the birth control movement was adopted by the Salt Lake district, Utah Federation of Women’s Clubs, at the annual convention Monday at the Newhouse hotel.The women’s clubs ask for an amendment to federal lav/s which will eliminate .the present ban on sending birth control information and supplies through the mails and over common carriers to physicians, hospitals and clinics.The resolution was adopted alter addresses by Dr. A. C. Callister, past president of the Salt Lake County Medical society, and Mrs. Kell Wells Alexander of Washington, D. C., chairman of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs committee on legislation for birlh control.Special TripMrs. Alexander made a special airplane trip from Washington to attend the sessions here.Dr. Callister explained he was speaking neither for nor against birth control, but was merely presenting some salient facts on the problem.The tax burden for feeble mindedness arid delinquency,” he said, “is more than $l,000,0p0,000 a year. Sterilization advocates* claim that in 100 years 90 per cent of feeble mindcd-ness and delinquency cotild be eliminated.”He declared that last year the 4,-500,000 American families on relief had 250,000 children. This, he said, means that the birth rate among them was 50 per cent higher than that of the remainder of the population.Forest Programstdire
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Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Tue, May 21, 1935
Page 9
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Evelyn W.
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