SUTHERLAND, Halliday G.: Birth Control: A Statement of Christian Doctrine Against the Neo-Malthusians. , London: Harding & More Ltd, 1922.

1st ed.Chapters include: The Essential Fallacies of Malthusian Teaching; The False Deductions Concerning Poverty; High Birth-Rates Not the Cause of High Death-Rates; How Religion Affects the Birthrate; Is There a Natural Law Regulating the Proportion of Births and Deaths? The Falling Birth-Rate in England: Its Causes; The Evils of Artificial Birth Control; The Religious Argument Against Birth Control; The Teaching of the Catholic Church on Birth Control. Pp.x/160, spotting to endpapers, newspaper cutting review of the book in The Church Times loosely enclosed. Brown cloth, blind-stamped title to front, title to spine dulled. VG."Halliday Sutherland, wrote a treatise accusing [Marie]Stopes of using poor women for birth control experiments; she vehemently denied the charges and countered by suing Sutherland for libel. The highly publicized trials that followed ultimately resulted in Sutherland being cleared of the charges, but brought Stopes an incredible amount of attention, resulting in her popularity as a public speaker."(Bookrags). (Book ref. 36613)  £20.00

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