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...permit the dispensation of contraceptive materials through the hospital. Docotrs at Cambridge City do not initiate conversation with patients on family limitation; rather the client must start the discussion and present proof of marriage. Boston Lying-In and Boston City Hospital, recognizing the reluctance of many women to discuss birth control, are more aggressive. The latter provides a post-partum session on maternal (including contraception) and child care and the former offers contraceptive information routinely in the six weeks post-partum check...
...clinic's effectiveness is seriously circumscribed by the pre-conditions of its existence; proponents of birth control services had to sacrifice the right to advertise the service and make public use of its statistics. The backwardness of Cambridge City Hospital is disturbing since 50 per cent of all Cambridge deliveries take place there; furthermore, most welfare cases and low income families receive their prenatal care and have their deliveries through the clinic because of its convenience and low cost. The argumments for "conservatism" vis a vis family planning in Cambridge are not substantive. Having Catholics on the Board of Trustees...
...attempting to discern the validity of these two alternatives, I undertook to answer two questions: How do the people of Cambridge feel about birth control and family planning? What is the role of the physician in giving birth control information? For my inquiry I chose census tract 15, bounded by Western Ave., Putnam Ave. and Green Street. This area ranks slightly high (about the 66th percentile) in social disorder and inadequate living conditions. Students and professors are widely dispersed among lower and middle class families, 37 per cent non-white and 14 per cent foreign-born. The sample...
...have any objections to family planning or birth control?" was phrased negatively to see if "reprisal threat" is a realistic problem. Of the 70 responding, four were eliminated for "high suggestibility" or lack of comprehension (foreign speaking). Of 66 respondents, 62 had no objection, 2 had qualified objections ("If birth control is handled properly") and 2 had religious objections. The sample was 38 per cent Catholic, 42 per cent Protestant and 20 per cent other (7 Jewish, 4 unaffiliated, 1 Greek Orthodox and 1 Buddhist). Assuming the ten refusals to be negative, the ratio is still over five...
...corollary question was worded more strongly: "If a maternal and child health care clinic were opened in Cambridge, could it as a matter of policy initiate conversation about birth control with the women it served? Of 62 with no objections to birth control, all but five concurred on the second question. The qualifications imposed by these five were directed to "as a matter of policy," stating the doctor should treat each case individually; one woman suggested the service be available only to married women. The possibility of serving unmarried women may not have occurred to most respondents...