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Wednesday, October 16, 1974
opened and additional sessions provided to meet the demands
made for the service. At the same time, the Family Planning
Association which formerly ran many of these clinics will of
course continue to provide services in their own premises
and I should like to pay a sincere tribute to their co-
operation in this endeavour. For the future, the Association
will be concentrating on areas not already covered by
Government clinics, By the end of this year they will be
providing services of various kinds at 32 locations, including
eight which have been opened since October last year. In
addition they have planc vo provide services at a further
three sites in the near future.
Your Government is very conscious of the social and financial
implications of excessive population growth. Our first objective
here has been to see that there are enough clinics conveniently
available to all members of the public. Once we have reached
that point, and we are getting near it, we will be in a position
to concentrate on bringing home to the public the benefits to
be derived from using these clinics. I am aware of proposals
going much further than this, for fiscal and other discrimination
against large families. While the Government has an open mind
on this, I am sure Hon.
Members would agree that such a course
should only be considered after the results of other action to
secure our ends by educational and voluntary means can be seen.
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