Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Council went on to a thoroughgoing endorsement of birth control, urging Protestant Episcopal citizens "to press through their governments, and through social, educational and international agencies, for measures aimed at relieving problems of population growth...
Delaying Action? In Manhattan, the Rev. Truman B. Douglass, vice president of the Board of Home Missions of the Congregational Churches, said that his church's Ryder Hospital in predominantly Catholic Puerto Rico is experimenting with contraceptive pills. "This service to the cause of population control." he said, "is a positive expression of Christian compassion and humanitarian concern...
Baptist Evangelist Billy Graham agreed. Birth control, he said, is one of the ways of coping with the "terrifying and tragic" problem of overpopulation; there is nothing in Scripture that prohibits its responsible use, and most Americans practice it, "whether they are Protestants or Roman Catholics...
Archbishop Iakovos, head of the Greek Orthodox Church of North and South America, lined up with the Roman Catholics. As he sees it, the argument in favor of birth control is based on the secular notion that society "must forever banish from the face of the earth hunger, misfortune, juvenile crime, social revolution and wars-since all these are a consequence of overpopulation." Said the archbishop: "This argument may be correct, but it is entirely negative." Childbirth, he added, is a "duty binding on all-not to avoid children, but to care for them in the nurture and admonition...
...licks its chops over each new scandal, e.g., last week's story of the couple in Rome, run over and killed while making love on the railroad tracks. Rome's press, while giving the Pope's admonitions good play, implied that he was merely suggesting self-control. "Self-regulation," said Rome's Il Tempo, "is without doubt the best medicine," went on to absolve itself from the Pope's accusations. Most other leading papers followed suit...