Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill - Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from

Historically the opposition to abortion and birth control ... stemmed from the urgency of the need to decrease the mortality and morbidity rates and to increase the population ... in the matter of abortion the human rights of the mother with her family must take precedence over the survival of a few weeks' old foetus without sense or sensibility.

- Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill

topic: Mother, Rights, Abortion, Precedence, Morbidity