Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...millions of others lack this kind of spunk-which stirs politicians and scholars to explanations. Senator Abraham Ribicoff argues that the poor "fared badly in the lotteries of parenthood, skin pigmentation and birthplace." Author Harrington speaks of the "thickness" of poverty-the dead ambitions that make for apathy, immobility, unaspiring hopelessness. One Government study by psychiatrists found that many of the poor are "rigid, suspicious, have a fatalistic outlook. They do not plan ahead. They are prone to depression, futility, lack of friendliness and trust in others." In the burned-out mining towns of Appalachia, ninth-generation Anglo-Saxon American...
Even the most optimistic of planned parenthood enthusiasts lose hope at the problems that India's vast illiterate, tradition-bound populace presents. Indian wives feel that they can justify their dowry only by proving fertility, and such contraceptives as diaphragms and birth control pills are either too complicated or too expensive. Best hope for the future are the intrauterine devices that are simple, cheap and reliable. Most popular now in India is the "coil," a plastic, S-shaped loop inserted in the womb, which can be removed if the woman wants a child. India's first coil factory...
...nine Justices denounced the only state law in the U.S. that banned the use of contraceptives by anyone, including married couples. It had been challenged by Yale Gynecologist C. Lee Buxton and Mrs. Estelle Griswold, executive director of the Connecticut Planned Parenthood League, who had been convicted ($100 fines) for dispensing contraceptives at a birth-control clinic in New Haven. "A very bad law," agreed dissenting Justice Hugo Black. "An uncommonly silly law," agreed dissenting Justice Potter Stewart...
Despite their convenience as contraceptives, "the pills" have their draw backs, one of which is that a woman must be careful to take 20 or 21 tablets a month on a precise schedule. Now researchers have told the American Association of Planned Parenthood Physicians that they are making progress in the search for an equally effective contraceptive to be given by injection no more often than once a month...
Even if the court rejects the C.C.C.L. brief, it faces three other aspiring pro-contraceptive amid-the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a group of 141 leading U.S. doctors, and the ever-eager American Civil Liberties Union. Anticontraceptive Connecticut, on the other hand, has not found an amicus willing to speak up in court...