ocated that further efforts in the direction of
pain relief should be explored.

(_c_) For dealing with the problem of the unmarried mother, the
Committee considers that the attack must be along the lines of more
careful education of the young in matters of sex, prohibition of
the advertisement and sale of contraceptives to the young, and a
more tolerant attitude on the part of society towards these girls
and their children.

(_d_) The Committee believes, however, that the most important
cause of all is a change in the outlook of women which expresses
itself in a demand of the right to limit--or avoid--the family,
coupled with a widespread half-knowledge and use of birth-control
methods--often ineffective. These failing, the temptation to
abortion follows.

The Committee can see only two directions in which abortion resulting
from these tendencies can be controlled:--

(1) By the direction of birth-control knowledge through more
responsible channels, where, while the methods would be more
reliable, the responsibilities and privileges of motherhood, the
advisability of self-discipline in certain directions, and other
aspects of the matter would be discussed.

The Committee believes that it is through the agency of well-informed
doctors, and, to a certain extent, through clinics associated with our
hospitals, that this advice should be given.

It is not, however, considered that this is a matter for the State
except to a limited degree.

(2) To appeal to the womanhood of New Zealand, in so far as selfish
and unworthy motives have entered into our family life, to consider
the grave physical and moral dangers, not to speak of the dangers
of race suicide which are involved.

This, it is considered, is a matter for all women's social
organizations to take up seriously.

IV. Certain further measures of a more general nature came under the
examination of the Committee.

The prohibition of the promiscuous advertisement of contraceptives, and
of their sale to the young; the licensing of the importation of certain
types of contraceptives; the restriction of the sale or distribution of
contraceptives to practising chemists, doctors, hospitals, and clinics;
the prohibition of the advertisement, or of the sale, except on medical
prescription, of certain drugs and appliances which might be used for
abortion purposes; these measures ar