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Birth control at Harvard is subtle. There are no fancy clinics with tote boards advertising how many are using what methods with such-and-such percentages of success. There are no pamphlets with male and female symbols crossing over pictures of unwanted, crying babies. And the only attempt the University...
The object of a good birth-control program, says Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of UHS, is to see to it that those women who do not want to get pregnant, don't. Harvard's low-keyed decentralized program which offers the information without blitzing students with its presence, suits...
Despite the piecemeal nature of the program, it is still possible to discern how the University insures that women don't have unwanted pregnancies, and at the same discover some of the trends in birth control practice that are emerging in this the sixth year of Harvard's birth-control...
Unwanted pregnancies at Harvard, Wacker says, are fairly rare--resulting usually because the user's birth control method has failed, and not because the couples were unprotected. Students who forget to take the pill regularly, or those who inserted their diaphragm poorly, are the cause for many of the unwanted...
It appalls and angers me that male presidential candidates, who will never have to go through the agony of an unwanted pregnancy, can take such a self-righteous stand on a personal decision like abortion [Feb. 16].