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...numerous. Poor families in the U.S. have an average of 4.5 children compared with three for those above the poverty line. Last week President Nixon sent a message to Congress calling for a major increase in federal family planning services in the next five years. The goal: to make birth control information and devices available to all American women of childbearing...
...greatest impact would be among the estimated 5,000,000 low-income women in this category. Nixon's proposal would raise federal spending on birth control-now $64 million annually -by $150 million after five years. The President also urged a federal study of U.S. population growth, its expected effects and the nation's capacity to handle it, and urged the United Nations to take the lead in controlling world population growth. Presidential Assistant Daniel P. Moynihan said the problem was the world's most serious save for disarmament...
...Florida N.A.A.C.P. leader also criticized the program on the grounds that blacks "need to produce more babies, not less," for added political power. The plan, however, drew praise from many family planning and demographic experts and from the Episcopal bishop of California, C. Kilmer Myers. Indeed, unless the birth rate is cut, U.S. population (now more than 200 million) will exceed 300 million by the year...
...intrusive and our culture is so permeated with sexual messages that planned and relevant sex-education programs are vital now." As for Parsons' argument about the latency period, she argues that "sex is so ubiquitous now that the child is getting sexual information from the time of birth...
...TAKE Mile Deneuve's pregnancy. At one point she is about three months pregnant. Three cuts later she is six months pregnant, and not many cuts after that she is ready to give birth. Before you decide this is a skillful condensation of time through montage, let me assure you it is abundantly clear that no more than one day has elapsed between the first and last shot described. So much for montage and continuity...