The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1921-12-31

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cLAREs THAT LAW, SCIENCE,
POLICY AND EXPERIENCE CON-
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MENTs AND AUTHORITY
AGAINST PERNlclous DOC.
TRINEs.
Archbishop Patrick J. Hayes. issued
statement on birth control last
week. Some time ago Mgr. Joseph
Dineen, chancellor Of the Archdiocese
OF New York, went to the Town Hall
where birth control advocates were to
discuss the subject and made a com
plant which resulted in the suppress
sion Of the meeting by the police. The
Archbishop's statement, issued from
the Archiepiscopal residence, was as
follows:
'As q citizen and a churchman,
deeply concerned with the moral we'll
being of our city, I feel it a public
duty to protest against the use of the
open forum for the propaganda OF
birth-control This | do in no secta
rian spirit, but in the broader one OF
the common veal
MY protest is made in the name Of
ten national organizations of womer
with a combined membership of near
ly a million. as well as in the interes
of thousands of other indignant WON
en- and distressed mothers who arr
alarmed at the daring of the advocates
OF birth-control in bringing out in the
open. unrestricted, free meeting, +;
discussion of subject that simpl,
prudence and decency, If not tn,
spirit OF the law, should keep within
the walls of a clinic, or only for TIL,
ears of the mature and the expe
lrienced. -
| Against Federal Law.
| The Federal law excluding brit
| control literature from the mails, an,
the New York Penal Law making i
| unlawful to disseminate information
on the subject. reflect the will of TIN
people most emphatically.. The lat
| ter law was enacted under the polio
| power. of the legislature for the benefi
! of the morals and health of the CON
| munity. | submit that illegal infol
nation was given and the law made
mockery of by clever evasion at TIL
meeting held in Town Hall, Oct. ri
under the auspices of the Voluntar.
| Parenthood- League. The holding o
this meeting evidently has been los
sight OF by the public. The stenl
/ graphic report Of that meeting dis
closed to me illegal information o
the subject that never had before
Representative women of this city, al
citizens and working for the socia
/ welfare of the community, have re
quested me to endorse their protes
against such future public expression:
I do so now publicly.
Opposed by Scientists. ~
"rhe law of God and man, science
public policy, human experience ar
all condemnatory Of birth control a
preached by few irresponsible ind
viduals, without endorsement or al
prevail, as far as know. of reputabl
fbody Of physicians or hmedicai societ.
| whose province it is to advise tn
public on such matters.
1 "The tenets of birth control are
direct opposition to the opinion {
most distinguished scientists of til
world who have been aroused to maxi
a serious study of the causes of I'll
Impending deterioration of the race c
lforeseen by we'll known biologists,
"At the recent International Co
gress of Eugenics held in New Yor
last September prominent scientists
attendance emphasized the necessit
lif the race was to be better born, ,
the protection of homogeneous ma
riage with limitation of divorce: MOI
children in the families of the WELT