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World Service,24 Sep 1995,43 mins

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John Tusa on the morality and medicine, population and emotion - and the escape from the misery of unwanted children. "I have as good as 15 children - 12 born alive, 10 living - my youngest is two years now and I am full of dread, my husband says it is the only comfort he has, what with working all day." A 1920s London woman.

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