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...married couples whose religious beliefs interpose no moral problem, the pill is indeed a boon. Biologists have computed that under a dictum of St. Augustine, permitting "only those sexual relations which are necessary to procreation," a man could not expect to have intercourse more than 55 times in his life. But the late Alfred C. Kinsey's studies indicated that the average American has intercourse 5,500 times, leaving coitus with procreative intent at a mere 1%. Dr. S. Leon Israel of the University of Pennsylvania believes that this is ten times too high-that conception is specifically planned...
...Lifetime. For every American woman who has rejected the pills because of conscious doubt or uncon scious fears and guilt, a dozen have accepted them. Says Dr. Richard Frank, medical chief of Chicago's Planned Parenthood clinics: "More than five million women can't be wrong about the acceptability of the pills." This impressive total, according to the 1965 National Fertility Study,* means that of all white American women using any form of contraception, 24% are on the pills. Broken down, it shows 27% pill use among Protestants, 22% among Jews, 18% among Roman Catholics. This last figure...
Four Little Indians. Typical of the woman who has had all the children she wants and dreads that "menopause baby" is an Atlanta mother of three, aged 44, who says: "I'm getting too old to start looking after another baby. I've been taking the pill for almost two years with no side effects, and it's much simpler than any other method I've tried." To the neurotics who complain that it is too difficult or too much trouble to take a pill a day, a 34-year-old mother in Oak Park, Mich...
...pill is equally helpful to the newly married who want babies at times of their choosing. Says...
...that first year." An Indiana teacher, 23, concurs: "When I got married I was still in college, and I wanted to be certain that I finished. Now we want to buy a home, and it's going to be possible a lot sooner if I teach. With the pill I know I can keep earning money and not worry about an accident that would ruin everything." For all these women, the pill spells freedom from fear...