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...Farnsworth doubts that the ban on contraceptives would be lifted if the state law were repealed. "If we administered and supervised contraceptives, we would be saying it was all right," he commented last week. Assistant Director Munter agrees. "Contraception is not just a legal question," he has said. "It is a question of interpersonal relations, morality, and personal dignity." Farnsworth considers the issue as much one of psychology as of morality, and has done studies on the distracting effects of premarital sex on students' emotional and academic lives...
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...their families. "Square as it sounds, this produces the best result in over 99 per cent of the cases," Munter has said. "Often the families don't react the way the girls fear they might." If a girl insists on an abortion, or threatens to harm herself, Farnsworth said the UHS tries, through counselling or psychotherapy, to "help her arrive at a better solution...
Because of the small proportion of pregnancies that it sees, the UHS gets no feeling of a trend in the number of pregnancies or abortions. "I'm no more alarmed now that I was when I came here," commented Farnsworth, who has directed the UHS for 13 years...
Commenting on general UHS policy, Farnsworth has said, "Often the doctor is in an impossible situation. His first duty is to his patient, but he must also keep his own conscience clear." Maintaining a professional conscience is not an easy assignment in 1967, especially when cash can so easily compensate for conscience in the world beyond Holyoke Center...