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...David Goldstein, Secretary of the Catholic Truth Guild of Boston, took to task the whole birth control movement as being a detriment to personal morality, domestic felicity, and civil integrity in an address before the Liberal Club at its luncheon yesterday. He held that "birth prevention rather than birth control were a more fitting term by which to designate those artificial processes advocated by the proponents of this reprehensible doctrine." He termed as sophistical the arguments made by Mrs. Sanger before the Club two weeks ago in favor of neo-Malthusianism...
...Goldstein defended the Catholic Church, the institution against which, he held, the "venom of the birth preventers largely centers, because she condemns the practice and bars from the sacraments those, who deign to frustrate the natural law of procreation by artificial means." Mr. Goldstein repudiated the notion that the Catholic Church advocates "an avalanche of babies under any circumstances." When the mother's health, the danger of the loss of life, extreme poverty, or any other legitimate reason exists for limiting the birth rate, it is held to be moral for husband and wife by mutual consent to practice continence...
...overpopulation but depopulation that threatens our country today, asserted Mr. Goldstein. "With birth prevention, and its corrolary, divorce, unfortunately on the increase, the trend of events point the other way. The figures presented recently by Mr. Louis I. Dublin, the insurance statistician, show that America will have to abolish her restrictive immigration laws to keep up to her numbers if the natural laws of generation are not more fully obeyed by our married native population. If our country should legalize the dissemination of anti-procreation information, advocated at this Harvard Liberal Club a couple of weeks ago, a disregard...
...Goldstein condemned the advocates of birth control as "race despoilers who, upon mere assumption, hold that the quality of children may be improved by lessening the number of births by unnatural means. This big talk has nothing but mere assumption to rest upon. And it is upon this strange assumption that neither the facts of history nor moral plausibility sustains, that they expect harlot practices to bring forth children with the strength of a Samson, the judgement of a Daniel, the genius of a Shakespeare, the scientific accomplishments of a Pasteur, and the all around Americanism of a Franklin...
...Goldstein, who has delivered many speeches on this subject, has frequently mentioned the Liberal Club by name. In asking him to speak, the Club invited him to come into its midst and make his criticism face to face...