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Ostensibly, the hearings before Senator Gaylord Nelson's monopoly subcommittee in Washington last week did not constitute a trial, either of the Pill or of its proponents. The Wisconsin Democrat repeatedly expressed his resentment of any suggestion that they were so intended. But the atmosphere in the hearing room was tense with ill-concealed hostility between the Pill's attackers and its defenders. The give-and-take between Senators and witnesses, and even between Senators, had the tone of courtroom adversary procedure. The reason was clear: no new medical evidence had been presented in Nelson's first...
...birth-control movement, tried to turn the tables with a medical metaphor. "There have been undesirable side effects from these hearings," he said. "They have created a sense of great alarm." Guttmacher cited polls indicating that almost one-fifth of the American women who had been using the Pill had abruptly abandoned it, while as many more were thinking of doing...
...Greek Tragedy shows how disturbingly accurate Costa-Gavras was in portraying Greek political forces in Z. It should be a bitter pill for those who believe that Vietnam is an isolated error in U. S. foreign policy...
...middle-class unmarried young woman has no trouble getting the pill and birth-control information." Herbert Hoffman, a psychologist from Brandeis, said. "The poor do not have access to this information under the present system-they can't find birth-control devices and often don't have the money to buy them...
...strongest reaction came from U.S.-born Dr. Edris Rice-Wray, who began Pill research in Puerto Rico in 1957 and has continued it intensively in Mexico City. Some 130,000 Mexican women are using the Pill, she insisted, and there is no evidence that it has caused cancer in women. "There's a lot of funny business behind all this," she said, referring to the recent Senate hearings on the Pill. "People are making a lot of charges without evidence. All this is only going to misinform women." The result? Dr. Rice-Wray pessimistically predicts that "many women...