Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legalistic pretense that they are used to protect him against disease. But no French doctor can legally prescribe contraceptives for women. So strictly maintained is this ban that full-fledged gynecologists still complete their studies without ever learning that such contraceptives for women exist. "In the field of planned parenthood." said one French doctor, "France ranks on a par with Spain and Portugal. It is high time that France caught up with the other four-fifths of the world...
...stirring French doctors to action and open flouting of the 1920 law. Dr. Lagroua Weill-Halle's own conversion was typical. The daughter of a Roman Catholic Lyon family, she was shocked when she made her first acquaintance with le planning through a visit to a Planned Parenthood Federation clinic in Manhattan: "The desire to avoid motherhood seemed to me monstrous." But practicing in Paris, she met thousands of women who were afraid to have another child because of poverty or threats to their own health. Many had given up marital relations to avoid pregnancy. Even more were considering...
...with the business of approving President Kennedy's legislative program. But the Kearns proposal was followed quickly by Rules Committee consideration of a flood of other absurd resolutions, such as one that would have authorized a House investigation of "the social and economic problems engendered by parenthood outside of wedlock...
...socio-economic effects of haphazard childbearing, but have also been deeply concerned with the spiritual devastation wrought by fear of bearing children unable to be provided for." ¶ Dr. Alan Guttmacher, director of obstetrics and gynecology at Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital and a leader in the Planned Parenthood Association: "Contraception promotes health rather than illness. A good contraceptive device-the right one found for a particular patient-causes the complete blooming of the emotions during sexual intercourse because of the sense of freedom. Sex is all above the neck anyway-it's not below the waist...