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...suburban Detroit, Mr. and Mrs. John E. Troppi, already the parents of seven, became apprehensive about the possibility of another pregnancy. Mrs. Troppi obtained a prescription for Norinyl, Syntex Laboratories' contraceptive pill, and her nervousness vanished. But her calm mood, she claimed, was the result of her druggist's mistake: he had given her Nardil, a tranquilizer, and Mrs. Troppi later gave birth to a son. If the Troppis can prove negligence, a Michigan court of appeals ruled, a lower court can then order the druggist to pay damages. In computing the amount, the appeals bench said...
Today's children are reaching sexual maturity earlier than previous generations. Many parents are responding by condoning early dating, and some are even encouraging use of the Pill by girls barely into their teens. That kind of permissiveness can have unhappy consequences, according to Manhattan Psychoanalyst Peter Bios. In the current issue of Daedalus, he insists that youthful behavior need not follow biology, and that "a prolongation rather than an abbreviation of childhood" is imperative...
...hair down to here, because they are doing their own thing." U.S. Author Leon Uris (Exodus, Topaz) was sounding off in Sydney, Australia-a stop on a round-the-world tour to gather material for his eighth book. "Society's chief curse," carped Uris, is the birth control pill. "Sex has become such an open commodity that it has lost a lot of the affection a man and a woman should have for each other. By the age of 24 or 25, girls have had the romance bashed out of them. It is the age of the dirty...
...Vatican Council II was the bitter pill that caused conservative alienation, it was Pope Paul's no-Pill Humanae Vitae that most embittered liberals. The tragedy of that encyclical was that it could have been a proud plea for the dignity of human life-as many of the overlooked paragraphs remain-at a time when human engineering was raising serious moral questions. Instead, in forbidding artificial birth control, it discouraged not only fervent Catholics who believed in change but those borderline Catholics for whom change might have been a hopeful sign...
...been linked to cancer of the vagina in the daughters of women who took it for other purposes (TIME, Aug. 2). The Food and Drug Administration has not approved it for general use as a pregnancy preventive. Until DES is better understood, say the doctors, the morning-after pill should be only a last resort...