Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that "Government activities increasingly seek aggressively to persuade and even coerce the underprivileged to practice birth control" as a condition of gaining relief benefits. This, the bishops charged, was an infringement upon "the freedom of spouses to determine the size of their families"-an argument, ironically, that the Planned Parenthood association has always used to defend contraception. The accusation of coercion astounded and outraged officers of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, who insisted that U.S. poverty programs give birth-control advice and assistance only to those...
...commission majority recommended that couples be allowed to use any method of contraception, provided that they had a good reason in conscience to practice birth control and were not evading the demands of responsible parenthood. By this standard, which is close to present-day Protestant moral teaching, the reason for practicing birth control, rather than the means, would become the key point: a couple who used rhythm to avoid having a child for selfish reasons might be judged guilty...
...United States" and, among other things, implementation of the Marshall Plan; Polaroid Corp. President Edwin H. Land, 57, named to receive the Case Institute of Technology's $5,000 Michelson Award; Lyndon Johnson, named to receive the first Margaret Sanger Award in World Leadership of the Planned Parenthood Federation for "contributions to world understanding of population planning...
...Christopher Tietze, research director of the National Committee on Maternal Health: "If it should be true, I would think it's partly because people may have had trouble finding their accustomed contraceptives." A brand-new father explained: "It was the candlelight." Said an anonymous official of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America: "All the substitutes for sex-meetings, lectures, card parties, theaters, saloons-were eliminated that night. What else could they...
...your bumper sticker collection [June 17]: TROUBLE PARKING? SUPPORT PLANNED PARENTHOOD...