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...Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology and a brain father of birth control pills; of myeloid metaplasia, a blood disease; in Boston. A brilliant biologist, Pincus first won national attention in 1939 by inducing a "fatherless" mammalian birth (a lab-fertilized rabbit egg); then in the 1950s, with Harvard Gynecologist John Rock, successfully tested an ovulation depressant called progestin, which came on the market in 1960 as Enovid. At his death, Pincus was testing yet another idea: a "morning after" pill, which keeps fertilized eggs from settling in the womb...
...Reproduction," said Demographer Lincoln Day at a Yale University symposium for gynecologists, "is a private act, but it is not a private affair. It has far-reaching social consequences. No longer can we defend excessive reproduction by saying 'Well, they can afford it.' The question now is whether society can afford it." Not so, argued a gynecologist after listening to Day's talk. "How many children a couple want to have is their own business, and the point of birth control is just to ensure that freedom of choice...
...name will be forever linked with the pills, as is Jenner's with vaccination. The search for medically useful knowledge nowadays goes along parallel lines at many places, often with a team working at each center. But Physiologist Gregory Pincus of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology and Gynecologist John Rock of Harvard University rate high among the pioneers of oral contraception. It was at Harvard, too, that Dr. Fuller Albright noted in the mid-1940s that an excess of estrogen* in the bloodstream soon after the end of menstruation somehow prevented ovulation. A few years later, Pincus...
...less than 53% of American Catholic couples, according to the Ryder-Westoff survey, have adopted some form of birth control other than rhythm. And though some Catholic doctors will not prescribe the pill for them, many others will. In heavily Catholic Massachusetts, its use is widespread. Says Norwood Gynecologist Francis C. Mason: "Despite the doubletalk from Rome, the pill is the most acceptable method of birth regulation. Use of the pill by a large Catholic population acts to make them psychologically sound and to create
...India, Bombay Medical Student Reita Faria, 23. The new Miss World isn't especially interested in the title. Collecting her $7,000 prize money, she waved away the usual lucrative year of personal-appearance and film offers, prepared to rush home instead to finish her studies, become a gynecologist and marry a Bengal tea planter...