Word: womens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eighteen women have received appointments to the Radcliffe Institute for post-graduate research or creative work...
...Massachusetts it wasn't 30 years ago, or even ten; it was two years ago, August 8, 1966, that the state legislature approved a law which permitted qualified physicians to prescribe methods of contraception to married women. (As a result of a federal law passed this last session, funds will be cut off as of July 1, 1968 unless the state provides birth control information and service to both married and unmarried women.) Additionally, and almost humorously, the Massachusetts law prohibits the pharmacist from selling any item he knows is for contraceptive purposes; condoms, as everyone knows, are for sanitation...
...less real than the mother's desire to remain a healthy and happy companion to her children, the closing of a nearby playground to erect an apartment building, or the prohibitive costs of higher education. In a recent poll published in Eugenics Quarterly, only two per cent of women practicing family limitation did so for "general social reasons." The pain of an unwanted child is personal. 30-33 per cent of all lower-income families and seven per cent of all college educated families experience that pain. One fifth of all deliveries in Cambridge City Hospital are to unmarried girls...
...trustees permit the dispensation of contraceptive materials through the hospital. Docotrs at Cambridge City do not initiate conversation with patients on family limitation; rather the client must start the discussion and present proof of marriage. Boston Lying-In and Boston City Hospital, recognizing the reluctance of many women to discuss birth control, are more aggressive. The latter provides a post-partum session on maternal (including contraception) and child care and the former offers contraceptive information routinely in the six weeks post-partum check...
...corollary question was worded more strongly: "If a maternal and child health care clinic were opened in Cambridge, could it as a matter of policy initiate conversation about birth control with the women it served? Of 62 with no objections to birth control, all but five concurred on the second question. The qualifications imposed by these five were directed to "as a matter of policy," stating the doctor should treat each case individually; one woman suggested the service be available only to married women. The possibility of serving unmarried women may not have occurred to most respondents...