Conception Control and Its Effects on the Individual and the Nation

This work examines the practice of preventing conception from personal, medical, ethical, and national viewpoints. The author declines to give individual medical prescriptions, arguing that contraception between healthy partners is chiefly an ethical decision best discussed with a physician, and surveys available methods and channels for information. Attention is given to the psychic and marital dimensions of sexual relations, the risks of disseminating misleading knowledge, and possible consequences of widespread conception control for national efficiency, population composition, and public morality, concluding with a cautious, balanced set of observations and recommendations.