Emphasizing these findings as "extmeordinary,' Dr. Guttmacher said that they show the birth of second and third babies to be attended by least risk of maternal death. Risk of bearing first and fourth babies is about equal. After the fourth child, danger increases with each birth, unti] having the ninth baby brings serious risk. Having a ninth baby is 330 percent, more dangerous than having a third. Dr. Eastman repartee The Public Health investigation rates it even more serious—344 per cent. This fact, Dr. Guttmacher added, w news. It "confirmed what a few iconoclastic observers had come to suspect."
Pronouncing the policy of en couraging large facilities inefficient from a national standpoint, Dr Guttmacher stated that a woman who dies bearing a ninth child leaves probably six or more half-orphans. Production of very large families is also a source of invalidism to mothers, he added, and the infant death loss also rises acutely as births reach the fifth child, Summing up what he called "one obstetrician's attitude toward the problem of maternal health and the nations's strength." Dr. Guttmacher said:
"The nation will not be strengthened by the wastage of haphazard pre-nancy. It can be strengthened by efficient reproduction through selective pregnancy, selecting those in whom pregnancy is ill-advised and offering them the means of avoiding conception; selecting the young and fit to bear children and through education to make them realize the privilege and responsibility of planned parenthood."—United Press, Emergency Measures in Netherlands Cancelled
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