Even if that is not so, it may still have legal consequences, particularly as a ground for a divorce. Xxnx The instinct may be denied, just as other higher and nobler instincts are disregarded; but its validity cannot be questioned. We may take it, then, that “birth control” represents a deliberate and reprehensible attempt to nullify those innate laws of reproduction sanctioned by religion, tradition and man’s own ingrained instinct. As one commentator has rather unhappily expressed it: “When married the battle for one united and harmonious life really begins!” It is, indeed, but too often a battle! At its best this love is pure and chaste. In general, in any country where we find a diminished prolificity a falling off of childbirth unaccompanied by a decrease in the number of marriages occurring at the reproductive ages, we may attribute this decrease to voluntary restriction of
