Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of Stanford's 2,820 coeds are now seeking contraceptive help at the nearby Palo Alto Planned Parenthood center; its director, Gloria Davis, complains that the clinic is so crowded with students that high school teenagers from the community are being squeezed out. Dr. James McClenahan, director of Stanford's health center, agrees that the. university itself should probably take over. Dr. Richard U'Ren, a psychiatrist at the university health center, thinks otherwise. "What the health center should be dispensing to unmarried students is advice," he says. "If students want to go beyond that...
...Marianne Parker, an attractive young women with a Swedish accent, had just finished the first day of her graduate school comprehensives at Tufts. We talked about her experiences at Planned Parenthood with the unfortunate unpredictability of female physiology...
...bills legalizing birth control for married women were defeated in the Massachusetts legislature. The organization subsequently abandoned attempts to change the law but decided to use the right of free speech to educate people about the importance of family planning. In 1945 it changed its name to the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts...
More important, though, was Betsy Sable's point on this subject. "The hardship cases are the real problems here at Planned Parenthood. These women don't have the money to go to England, and they don't have the pull to get into a local hospital without the staff psychiatrists consent. Most have never seen a psychiatrist in their lives, so that they can't possibly have a mental record. And they usually come to us after it's too late to have the operation performed locally. They're the ones who wind up in the back offices...
...Even at Planned Parenthood, a lot of cases don't reach us. Planned Parenthood is a middle-class organization; the idea that someone will do an abortion for you legally is a middle-class idea." A visit to the PP office confirms this comment. The PP building stands isolated in a middle to upper class world. Across the street is Bonwit-Teller, adjacent is Brooks Brothers, in the neighborhood are Lord and Taylor, Peck and Peck and other unlikely hang-outs for those women who would be trapped by the abortion laws...