Do we need a free, comprehensive birth control scheme in this country? By the year 2000 there will be an extra eight million people living in Britain. So just to keep things as they are the Government will have to provide 600 new infant school places a day, a new large comprehensive school every other day, 2,000 new flats or houses a week and 20,000 new jobs a month. One alternative is a policy to reduce population by more effective birth control. Yet some people argue that a free comprehensive service would lead to greater permissiveness and promiscuity.
Tonight Alastair Burnet and Julian Pettifer look at the problem of our increasing population, and examine the arguments for putting contraceptives on the National Health.

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