Kneeling: Lynne McCrea (University of Rhode Island, 1974); Cindy Cooper (Emory University School of Law); Susan Klima (University of Nebraska); Susan Sencer (Grinnell College); Kathy Madden (Smith College); Pam Charney (Grinnell-Rush Medical Program); Lee Ridges (Spelman College).

Standing, Row 1: Jan Paradise (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine); Alice Coblentz (Medical College of Pennsylvania); Kay Carlisle (Fernbank Science Center, Atlanta); Dara Murphy (University of North Carolina School of Public Health, MPH Program).

Standing, Row 2: Mary Martin (Georgia State University, 1974); Sandra Clements (Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, D. C.); Tom Zorabedian (University of Rhode Island); Terri Sutton (C. L. Harper High School); Missy Douglas (Summer Student Program Coordinator); Sheryl Richardson Donaldson (Training Assistant, Emory University Family Planning Program); Stephanie Mills (Mills College, 1969).

Standing, Row 3: Frankie Moorhead (Meharry Medical College); Robert A. Hatcher M.D. (Director, Emory University Family Planning Program); Mike Shaw (Emory University School of Medicine); Randy Kline (Emory University School of Medicine); Ed Gardner (Emory University School of Medicine).

The summer program entitled "Family Planning and Human Sexuality" is sponsored by the Emory University Family Planning Program. Students from medical schools and colleges all over the country have participated in this summer program. Students complete individual projects under the aid and supervision of the faculty and staff of the Family Planning Program. Medical students also gain clinical experience in the delivery of family planning services. For application or further information write:

Sheryl Richardson Donaldson

Emory University Family Planning Program, Training Section, 69 Butler Street, S. E., Atlanta, Georgia 30303

CONTRACEPTION

Monthly 2 volumes per year

Started January 1970

For rapid publication of research papers and reviews on the following aspects of contraception

Correspondence regarding submission of manuscripts should be addressed to the Editor,

Dr. D. R. Mishell, Jr. at the address given above.

Correspondence regarding subscriptions and back issues sales should be sent to Geron-X Inc., Publishers, Box 1108, Los Altos, California 94022.

with very

EDITORIAL NOTE: CONTRACEPTION comes out
monthly and is an excellent means to keep up
recent advances in fertility control. Papers are often
published within four-six weeks of their arrival. We
recommend that CONTRACEPTION be available to
family planning programs, medical libraries, and to
physicians interested in recent changes in fertility con-
trol.

Robert A. Hatcher, Gary K. Stewart,

Randolph W. Kline, Frankie L. Moorhead
Authors, Contraceptive Technology, 1974-75

**

AT A GLANCE...

We have been counseled "Know Thyself" since the
beginning of time. Family planners should come to
know their Own values regarding abstinence,
premarital intercourse, abortion and the "ideal" con-
traceptive.

* We cannot assume that every individual coming to a
family planning clinic is there for contraceptives.
Patients may be there for a Pap smear, breast exam,
vaginal infection or V.D. check. They may be there to
have an infertility problem evaluated. They may be
practicing abstinence and have no current need for con-
traceptives.

* Users of pills watch out for:

1. Severe leg cramps

2. Severe headaches

3. Sudden blurring or loss of vision, sensation of flash-
ing lights

4. Chest pain

* Four not one options are open to the patient, couple and
clinician faced with the problem of unprotected
intercourse at midcycle:

1. Insertion of an IUD

2. Use of high dose estrogens

3. Await menses; if late, get menses extraction

4. Await menses; if late, wait a week or two and once
pregnancy can be diagnosed, diagnose it. Choose
between a therapeutic abortion and continuing the
pregnancy.

* Two methods of contraception increase the protection
obtained, e.g. IUD and mid cycle use of foam or con-
doms.

* Give the patient a list of her own problems --- her own
problem list.

*

Voluntary fertility control implies the availability of
contraceptives, sterilization, abortion and infertility
services.

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JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF GREATER WASHINGTON,
Washington, D.C., June 20, 1974.

STATEMENT ON PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS CONCERNING ABORTION Jewish teaching and tradition place the highest value on the sanctity of all human life and a very high value on the potential for human life of an as-yet unborn fetus. However, in all expressions in the mainstream of Judaism, past and present, the life and health of the mother are on a higher level of sanctity than the fetus can attain before birth. Consequently any conflict between the well-being of the fetus and the life or health of the mother must be resolved in favor of the mother.

Those who find abortion unacceptable as a matter of religious conviction or conscience are free to hold and live by their beliefs, but should not seek to impose such beliefs, by government action, on others. The determination of justifiable circumstances for an abortion is a moral decision to be made by the individual on the basis of value system and heritage, in light of such consultations as appear appropriate to such individual. We oppose, therefore, all current attempts by Constitutional Amendment that authorize the Federal government or state governments to limit the rights of individuals to decide to continue or to terminate a pregnancy.