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...through marriage, and once in a while a particular act results in a baby. If you tell five-year-olds that this is the way fathers and mothers affirm their love for each other and that they can choose when they will have a baby, you are teaching responsible parenthood, responsible sexuality...
...subject of birth control, the Methodists' 1944 creed is totally silent, while that of 1964 declares that "planned parenthood, practiced in Christian conscience, fulfills the will of God." Before World War I, the U.S. Episcopalians, like the Anglicans, still called birth control "demoralizing." In October 1966, the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church declared that "we affirm and support programs of population control." Even the Roman Catholic Church, until recently a staunch battler against liberalized birth control and divorce laws wherever they turned up, has begun to soft-pedal its opposition. Last year such liberalized laws have been...
...Potential Disaster." Much of last week's pill news from outside the U.S. came from the International Planned Parenthood Federation world conference in Chile. Reflecting the new international importance of population control, British Delegate to the U.N. Lord Caradon opened the Santiago meeting by declaring that it had convened out of "a sense of danger, indeed by a sense of potential disaster." At present rates of increase, averaging more than 2% a year, today's 3.3 billion world population will multiply to almost 7 billion by the year 2000.* Most alarming, continued Lord Caradon, is the fact that...
...logic is beginning to take root. A favorite story going the rounds at the Planned Parenthood conference tells of a 27-year-old woman who had just returned to the Chilean capital after a few years abroad. At a reunion of her convent school class, she looked around at 30 classmates, nearly all of them married, and got a "What's wrong with this picture?" reaction. None of them were pregnant, though most of them had been pregnant at the previous reunion five years before. "It suddenly dawned on me," she said, "that they were all on the pill...
Born. To Ralph Dungan, 43, U.S. Ambassador to Chile since 1964 and onetime J.F.K. presidential adviser, and Mary Rowley Dungan, 40: their seventh child, third daughter; in Santiago, Chile, thereby forcing Dungan to miss the first session of the International Planned Parenthood Federation convening in Santiago...