9 The "Hospital Today ...

9 The "Hospital Today , a magazine of London, in its editorial of the April 1975 issue, published a summary of the annual report of the British Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. It says: "...Despite the abundance of contraceptive medicines and legalized abortion, it is noted that 8.6% of the children are born to unmarried mothers! There is a further serious problem. In 1973 the following cases were noted: I case of an 11 - year old pregnant girl. 6 cases of 12 - year old pregnant girls.

38 cases of 13 - year old pregnant girls. 255 cases of 14 - year old pregnant girls. There were 166,000 cases of legal abortion during the same year, 50% of which were by unmarried women.

If these talking figures give us astounding facts about the social and moral state of the materialistic and communist civilizations, there are some other figures which draw the picture of their economic tragedy, giving more evidence of the failure of man-made systems and their being incapable of solving man's problems. *International statistics show that, "there are in the world 400 million persons undergoing a slow death because of hunger , and that five million persons actually die of hunger.

Several conferences have been held within the past two months in Bucharest, Rome, London and elsewhere to discuss the food problem. Before holding each of these conferences, the observers used to assert that the results of the conference would be no better than those of the previous one.

They say: "It has become a common thing to see these conferences held and concluded without finding the solution for this human drainage to which the peoples of the world are subjected, especially in Africa and Asia..."10 "...at the same time, the experts stress that the USA alone can feed all those millions of people who are being subjected to slow death...'' 11 Perhaps the best confirmation of the said statement came from the American Minister of Agriculture who announced: "If we killed half of the cats and dogs we keep, the food which we thus spare can satis1~ all the hungry stomaches in the world.'12 "In the fields of development, food and housing, all the experts unanimously agree that the available natural sources in the world can meet the needs of all the people of the world, should there be enough good intention to exploit them, and to equally distribute them among the people of the world.

But the root of the problem stems from the unjust distribution of wealth.