Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Major & Minor. Sterilization of a woman, or salpingectomy, is admittedly major surgery, but Dr. Alan F. Guttmacher, president of Planned Parenthood-World Population, contends that it is no more difficult or dangerous than an appendectomy. It must be done in a hospital under general anesthesia. Through an abdominal incision, a gynecological surgeon cuts both Fallopian tubes and ties off the separated ends. After that there is no way for an egg to pass from the ovary to the womb...
...face the fact that human beings can no longer breed at the same level as animals? People should not be forced to become parents because of a blind biological collision between sperm and ovum, but should be free to choose whether or not they will undertake the obligations of parenthood...
...River Street power station and plans to convert it into the Tenth House. "All it needs is a little fixing up to blend in with the rest of Harvard's new architecture," observes President Pusey. Ethel Kennedy is awarded the "See What We Mean" Trophy by the Planned Parenthood League of America...
...Sartre is entirely serious in these passages, it is sufficiently interesting psychoanalytically that they occur to him. He calls his father's death "the big event of my life: it sent my mother back to her chains and gave me freedom." Freedom from what? From the necessary difficulties that parenthood (not just fatherhood) brings to every member of the family? Certainly Sartre's later life with his mother and Simone de Beauvoir hardly convinces anyone that he escaped so unscathed...
Eisenhower haven't been in agreement on too many topics. But some subjects clearly transcend old animosities. This week the Planned Parenthood-World Population federation announces in Manhattan that the two ex-Presidents will become co-chairmen of its Honorary Sponsors Council...