The report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Abortion, which was appointed by the Minister of Health and the Home Secretary, under the chairmanship of Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C., in May, 1937, "to inquire into the prevalence of abortion and the law relating thereto, and to cpn-Sider what steps can be taken by more. effective enforcement of the law or otherwise to secure the reduction of maternal mortality dnd merbility arising-from this cause," was published recently.
The report is signed by fourteen the ffieen members of the com mittee, subject to reservations on a number of points by some of the members. One of the-members of the committee, Mrs. Dorothy Thurtle, Signs a separate report, Life and Health 4 The majority report records the general impression that the number for abortions occurring annually in England and Wales at ihe present ff time is between 110,000 and 150,000, Of which perhaps 40 per cent. are Criminal The available evidence emed ie Danzig Dr. Thal Pau} Gopbbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda, being welcomed to Danzig Free State by a child with gri urmful of fowers. Danzig continues to be one of Europe's thorniest problems with, no solution in sight. suggests that the proportion of total abortions to total pregnancies has nct appreciably increased in recent year: but that there has been an increase in the prevalence of criminal aber tion, counterbalanced by a decree in the prevalence of spontaneous abortion. dora "Who welcomes irl from Broadway is Judy, wife. The role of Judy is a due iao, ding to
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