Word: orals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drive by backers of oral, live-virus vaccines for the right to succeed the Salk killed-virus injections as the first line of defense against poliomyelitis reached the U.S. last week. Biggest offensive was launched in Miami and surrounding Dade County, where the entire under-40 population, estimated at 520,000, was marshaled in an effort to show that a single swallow of the three-way vaccine is not only safe but superior to Salk. By week's end the campaign's sponsors tallied more than 75,000 who had taken the vaccine. They hoped...
...generally understood by Orthodox rabbis as forbidding contraceptive devices, on the ground that users commit the sin of Onan, who "spilled [his seed] on the ground." But how about oral contraceptives in pill form? Rabbi Tendler's answer: oral contraceptives are permissible. But the effect of some of the pills now used (in experiments in Puerto Rico, for instance) is to reduce the hormone level in a woman, which in turn may result in constant minor bleeding from the uterus. The law forbids sexual intercourse with a woman who is nidah (menstruous); therefore intercourse would be wrong...
...would be interesting to see the picture were every couple required to take an oral fertility pill in order to bear children...
Words v. Deeds. So far, birth control campaigns, even when given government support (as in India), have had a hard time of it. Birth control advocates and research scientists look ahead to "the pill" -the still-undiscovered oral contraceptive cheap enough to suit the pocketbooks of impoverished Latinos, Asians and Africans and simple enough to be understood by all. Resistance to the idea of birth control is often a complex of emotional, moral, philosophical and economic attitudes. In Latin America, the Philippines, South Viet Nam and Ceylon, the Roman Catholic prohibition of contraception is felt. India still echoes...
...million to 680 million, has had a curiously confused attitude toward bigness-alternating between a desire for manpower and a concern for so many mouths to feed. Early in 1956, Peking turned on a birth control campaign that plugged everything from up-to-date devices to the favorite oral contraceptive of Chinese herbalists: live tadpoles. But in 1958, Red China's bosses quietly dropped birth control, now preach the gospel according to Karl Marx: an increase in population is always an increase in capital...