HEW OFFICIAL DISCUSSES POLICIES The new director of the U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, National Center for Family Planning Services, Miss Majorie Costa, in an address at the annual convention of the Planned Parenthood Federation, San Antonio, Oct. 23-26, stated that a national program of sex education and human sexuality "from the pre-school level right on up" was advocated by her department. According to Miss Costa, the federal government is not funding any programs in which abortion is used as a means of contraception or population control. (Source: American Medical News, Nov. 13, 1972). Miss Costa, however failed, to explain how millions of dollars of federal funds being funneled into Planned Parenthood units, in the U.S. and abroad, will be prohibited from use in programs where abortion is used as a "back-stop to faulty or ommitted contraception," or as a population control measure as in Singapore or India. For the record we quote Dr. Alan F. Guttmacher's statement on the role of abortion in Planned Parenthood programs taken from "Planned Parenthood: Profile and Prospectus", F. P. Perspectives, Vol. 3, No. 1 Jan. 1971, Pgs. 57-58. "To achieve this society (i.e. "the perfect contraceptive society") we in Planned Parenthood must establish a multi-faceted program which would include, in addition to contraceptive services, the following elements; contraceptive education for all youth so that at the appropriate time in their lives contraception will be accepted as naturally as breathing; infertility services, including artificial donor insemination where necessary genetic counseling, ABORTION and sterilization; veneral disease diagnosis and treatment. Many of our Affiliates now include some of these services. IN THE FUTURE, ALL OR MOST OF US MUST INCLUDE ALL OF THEM.......(emphasis added.) Dr. Guttmacher concludes his two-page article with the suggestion that Planned Parenthood will shift its emphasis from legal, religious, and bureaucratic battles to intergrating its programs into the growing "family planning network of hospitals, health departments, and other nonprofit agencies".... Presently most Planned Parenthood federal funding is conducted through so called, Regional Family Planning "COUNCILS". For example, in Illinois, HEW funds flow into the Illinois Family Planning Coordinating Council, and out to P.P. of Chicago and its teeny-bopper affiliate TEEN SCENE. In New York City, HEW funds flow into the N.Y.C. Inter-Agency Council on Family Planning and to PP of NYC which operates two of its own aboritoriums. UNICEF AND POPULATION CONTROL The United Nation's Children's Fund according to the Sept. 1972 issue of the International Planned Parenthood News is now destined to play "a more agressive role in family planning activities" as a result of implementing recommendations of the WHO UNICEF Joint Policy Committee approved by the Executive Board. UNICEF's unholy alliance with the WHO, which sees abortifacient drugs as a key weapon in population control in developing countries, will center primarily in the area of support for "advanced training in human reproduction, population dynamics and family planning" with specific emphasis on providing contraceptive supplies, equipment and transport. PASTE YOUR UMBRELLA BEFORE THE RAIN is a booklet prepared by the Chinese Center for International Training in Family Planning of Taiwan with some technical aid from Rockefeller's Population Council. UNICEF contributed $10,000.00 worth of paper and ink, thus making possible the initial printing of 440,000 copies, enough for every boy and girl graduating in 1971 from junior and senior high schools and vocational schools. The thrust of this publication is unabashedly and ruthlessly Malthusian-population control orientated. Couples with large families i.e. more than two or three children are depicted in a constant state of mental and physical anguish. The "Population Explosion" is blamed for a multitude of sins including refuse disposal, air and water pollution, water shortage, heavy traffic and housing problems. Much of the section on contraception is truly heartwarming. For example, the booklet cites the case history of a college graduate infected and disabled from TB and finally classified as a grade 1 indigent. They have six children ages 16 to two, and live on relief and the small income earned by the wife. The reporter who originally cited the case in a newspaper article was sympathetic to the sacrificing mother but the authors of Paste Your Umbrella stated, "We however, think that their troubles were caused by this stupid couple themselves." (pg. 44-English version). The theme, "every child a wanted child" and "two is enough!" is repeated in the Family Planning Song at the conclusion of the text;........ "Family Planning has a theme Two children as each couple's dream; Let a small family be your goal A happy future waits for you." PRO-LIFE MEMBERS SEEK APPOINTMENT TO HEW'S POPULATION COMMITTEE In 1973, three positions will be open on the Secretary of HEW's Advisory Committee on Population Affairs headed by Dr. Louis Hellman. The Committee is divided into Services Task Force and Research Task Force members. Currently, there are well known anti-life personalities sitting on each task force. As of July 28th, Committee membership included the following: Service Task Force Mrs. Helen Martin, Chevy Chase, Md. (1973) Ernest W. Page, San Francisco, CA. (1973) Research Task Force Dr. Gorden Douglas, N.Y. N.Y. (1974) Mrs. Jo Anne Gray, Denver, Colorado, (1972) Pro-Life groups who wish to submit the name(s) of members who are interested in the areas of family planning and population control demography for consideration by the Dept. of HEW should send in immediately, the names of the candidates, their qualification and interests to: Carbons should be accompanied by a letter requesting a proper balance of views be brought to this Committee. ANTI-LIFE VIRUS THRIVING AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY "If you are definitely pregnant and decide that you wish to have an abortion performed, the Washington D.C. law is such that obtaining one here will present no particular trouble. There are a number of agencies and clinics that perform counselling and dispense abortion information in Washington. A list of them can be obtained by calling Georgetown University Hot Line at 625-4194. Because safe and legal abortions can be obtained presently, there should be no reason to have an illegal one performed." "There are presently four methods of abortion that are generally used.....Dilation and Curettage... Vacuum Curettage...Saline Injection...and Hysterotomy. A method that is still somewhat in experimental stages but promises to come into more widespread use in the future is prostaglandin therapy. It should be remembered that these procedures are all considered surgical operations and that they all can produce physical trauma. In order to lessen the extent of this, it is best to have the abortion performed as early as possible. Abortions after the 20th week should not be performed, since the likelihood of irreparable harm to the mother and aborting a fully functioning human is very great...(p. 35-36). "The intrauterine device (the IUD).....is inserted into the uterus making it in some manner unreceptive to a fertilized egg....(p.28). “A method which costs little and exhibits no side effects, except possible enlargement of the female's abdomen is the Rhythm method." (p. 31).....the requirement of premeditated temperature-taking, and the rhythm method finds no effective place on the college campus. (p. 44). From Human Sexual Response-Ability Students of Georgetown U., Inc. Introduction-Rev. R. C. Baumiller, S. J. ABORTION-THE NEW COMMODITY? Source-"Legal Abortion: How Safe? How Available? How Costly?, Consumer Reports-Facts You Need Before You Buy No Advertising, July 1972, 60c (Address; P. O. Box 1111, Mt. Vernon, N.Y. 10550). pgs. 466-470. Putting "moral and religious" arguments aside, Consumer Union, confines itself to information gleaned "from doctors. public health officials and abortion referral specialists" about "the safety, availability and costs of abortion." Information is selected from the Joint Program for the Study of Abortion (JPSA) financed by Rockefeller's Population Council at a cost of $246,623.00. Despite a prohibition policy of no advertising, the article lists the addresses and phone numbers for Family Planning Information Service of N.Y.C., and the National Clergy Consultation Service, of N.Y.C., along with appropriate aboritorium fees. According to Consumer Reports, the Clergy Consultation Services "was founded for the specific purpose of helping women to obtain abortions. In 1971, some 3000 Clergy counselors handled more than 100,000 referrals for abortion." While the report suggests that Planned Parenthood and Clergy Consultation Service are "non-profit" agencies and charge no fee for referrals, it has been established that in certain areas of the country, i. e., Los Angeles, Calif., a kick-back of between $20-25 is received by these agencies per abortion. (L. A. Times West Magazine, July 23, 1972). Additionally, Planned Parenthood of New York City operates two aboritoriums with fees ranging from $125 to $800 or more depending on length of pregnancy. Pennsylvania legislators might be interested in noting that “........one hospital in Philadelphia performed more abortions in 1970 than all those in Delaware and South Carolina combined-even though the latter two states had recently liberalized their laws." (pg. 469) Pro-Life physicians will have a field-day with such comments as "In terms of fatalities, early abortion is far safer than childbirth and SALINE ABORTION thus far appears to be somewhat safer than a full-term delivery.....in short, abortion is safe only in competent medical hands....."Letters to the Editor of Consumer Reports may be directed to above address. SEATTLE-KING COUNTY DISTRIBUTES "MORNING-AFTER" PILL..... According to Dr. T. L. Marks, Director of Family Planning for Seattle-King County's Dept. of Public Health the so called "Morning-After" Pill now under investigation by Ralph Nader's health research associates, "is available on prescription from most physicians in the community, Family Planning Clinics of the Health Department, Planned Parenthood Center, and University affiliated clinics." (Source: Seattle Times-9 7 71). Among the nine points listed on the Seattle-King County Health Dept. Acknowledgement and Consent and Instruction sheet, which is signed by the patient and witnessed are: 1. The effectiveness in preventing pregnancy cannot be 21 This medication may cause serious reactions and com- NOTE: This medication which has been linked with vaginal OEE OFFERS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION The U. S. Office of Education has issued a draft of the Environmental Education Handbook which outlines the projects and requirements for grants of the Office of Environmental Education. In 1972, the OEE made six grants, totaling $127,000.00 for "population education". Pro-Life organizations or interested individuals should write immediately for the Handbook and request an application if they are interested in filing for an environmental grant in the areas of population, resources, etc. Last fiscal year, awards went to the following: $13,000 (1) Alexis DuPont School, Greenville, DE for Population Environment Project $35,000 (2) Indiana University Foundation, Bloomington, IN. for H.S. Population Unit $20.000 (3) U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.- Inservice Training Program $ 4,000 (4) ZPG-Fargo-Moorehead Chapter-Rural $ 5,000 (5) U. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio for Handbook and applications available from: WHITE HOUSE PROBES HEW INVOLVEMENT IN ROCKEFELLER FILM President Nixon's advisor, John Ehrlichman, charged with domestic affairs, is investigating the role of the Dept. of HEW in the sponsorship and distribution of the film Population Growth and the American Future, which was aired over the PBS on Nov. 29th, 1972. HEW funds authorized for film distribution, the preparation of study guides and teachers materials, purchase of films, cost of editing film into "teaching modules" and grant to Population Education, Inc. now totals more than $220,000.00. The USCL has asked Dr. Ehrlichman to make public all grants and contracts involved in the project including the $50,000 grant to Population Education, Inc. from the U.S. Office of Environmental Education. It has also asked that all materials currently being edited and prepared by Dr. Louis Hellman's Office of Population Affairs be first reviewed by a special Congressional Committee appointed by the President to assure that the views presented are objective and balanced. Since the Dept. of HEW has already purchased 100 copies of the Rockefeller film, the U.S. Coalition for Life has requested that 100 copies of the second PBS hour be purchased and that the Office of Environmental Education and Office of Population provide equivalent funds to the U.S.C.L. for the preparation of teaching materials similar to those now being prepared to accompany the film. Negotiations are expected to take several months, and the film is expected to be withheld until government administrators can assure the taxpayer that all points of view are being heard on the population question. For additional details see USCL MEMO for Jan. 20, 1973. A.I.D. OFFICIAL ADDRESSES IPPF MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS- SYDNEY, AUGUST 1972 Dr. R. T. Ravenholt, director of the Office of Population, USAID, took note of the fact that from 19651972 AID allocated $385 million towards population programming. According to Dr. Ravenholt it was becoming increasingly necessary to reach young women to curb early reproduction. He said that no coercion should be employed, but all methods should be made available in family planning programs, including ABORTION. A significant portion of the IPPF agenda was given over to abortifacient agents such as prostaglandins. Dr. S. S. Ratnam of Singapore stated his hospital used prostaglandins for 2nd trimester abortion and that his trial supply came from the IPPF. Dr. Ben Branch of PRETERM, Washington, D.C.'s key aboritorium, evaluated outpatient vacuum aspiration programs which he expected would reduce long-term problems of future spontaneous abortion, ectopic pregnancy pre-mature delivery and involuntary sterility. Dr. R. P. Soonawala of India discussed his massive experiments with 5,000 vaginal sterilizations of which 2,269 were under his own supervision. He stated that Indian women were more likely to come to the sterilizing operating theatres if the word “operation" was no used. The women instead were told that a stitch would be put in the vagina and they would be safeguarded from having further children. Patients were advised not to have sexual relations for 4-6 weeks by telling their husbands that this might disturb the stitch. Dr. Rosenfield presented a paper on the effect of the copper T-IUD, which he suggested interfered with the implantation of the blastocyst. Dr. Malcolm Potts, of the IPPF, presented the final conference paper on coitus-interruptus or withdrawal which he stated should have a place in family planning programs, as this method of birth control could serve as a conditioning agent to the acceptance of clinic-based methods. According to Dr. Potts, withdrawal when combined with legal abortion might present less risk of morbidity and mortality than the continued use of medical methods of contraception with their "rare but sometimes serious side-effects." USCL Reprint No. 119 ZPG AND CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR STATUS Prolife groups and individuals who wish to have Zero Population Growth removed from the alternate service program of the Selective Service as "a non-profit organization contributing to the national health, safety and welfare" may send letters accompanied when possible, by clippings of local ZPG anti-life activities to: Mr. Byron Pepitone, Acting National Director Washington, D.C. "HOW TO GET 6,000 ABORTIONS A DAY!" Contraception-Sterilization-Abortion-Population Control. Anthony Zimmerman, SVD, STD covers them all in an excellent expose of the true nature and consequences of governmental population control programs...... "....And another Korean official told us at the Second World Population Conference that a nation which launches a birth control campaign owes it to the citizens to liberalize abortion laws to a certain extent....." "Accidental pregnancy is a real disadvantage in the use of this method (IUD). Patients are often very upset or even hysterical when told that they are pregnant. Dr. Guttmacher (USA) recommends induced abortion..." (comments of Prof. Chun of Hong Kong). "There should be no statutory compulsion toward this (mass sterilization), but there is a need for mobilizing public opinion in such a manner as to operate as moral compulsion....." Comments of Mr. R. A. Gopalawami at 1963 Asian Population Conferency at New Delhi. Study copy of Zimmerman article originally published in the Dec. 1966 issue of The Reign of the Sacred Heart is available from the USCL. Order Reprint No. 116-50c. INDIA'S MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY ACT, 1971 was analyzed by Drs. R. Koteswara Raq and G. R. Bhaskar at the International Conference on Family Planning, New Delhi, March 12-16, 1972. Under present regulations, abortions must be carried out by a Registered Medical Practitioner, i.e., allopathic doctors, who are registered with a Medical Council and who have undergone training or gained experience as prescribed by the Central Government. Six weeks of training at a teaching hospital with a minumum killing of 12 unborn children is the suggested program. Abortions are carried out if (1) the life or physical or mental health of the mother is threatened or (2) if the child might be seriously mentally or physicially handicapped. According to the explanation offered by the Indian physicians, the above criteria would cover pregnancy due to rape and "Where any pregnancy occurs as a result of failure of any device or method used by any married woman or her husband for the purpose of limiting the number of children, the anguish caused by such unwanted pregnancy may be presumed to constitue a grave injury to the mental health of the pregnant woman.' Open season on the unborn is limited to the first twenty weeks of pregnancy. Minors or lunatics require written consent of guardian. Abortions may be carried out in Government Hospitals and approved private aboritoriums set aside for this purpose. NOTE: In a medical emergency, an abortion may be carried out at any time, regardless of period of gestation of the child, in any private hospital by any doctor regardless of training or experience. Additional beds for abortion patients may be set up in the General or District Hdqs. Hospital. "The same plan as adopted for post partum theatres and sterilization wards may be adopted.” USCL Reprint No. 117-40c According to Prof. A. Dass of New Delhi who also participated in the International Conference, "With liberalization of the abortion law early pregnancy detection has become a means of offering comprehensive obsteric management.....induction of abortion is safest between the 6th to the 8th week and the best and least traumatic method is vacuum aspiration. At this period of gestation vaginal tubal ligation is easy....a nation wide publicity campaign and a quick and efficient service would greatly contribute to the success of the programme." USCL Reprint No. 118 - 30c NOTE: India's current abortion programme appears to follow the guidelines set forth in the U.S. Agency for International Development Population Report (Dec. 1971) which called for a "pregnancy-centered approach" to family planning programs where early pregnancy detection is combined with abortion, contraception and sterilization services. (p. 34-35.) 179). According to the AID report, India's Abortion-on-Demand "now poses a mighty challenge to the Indian Government.” (p. In June 1970 AID made a grant of $20 million dollars to India for expanding its family planning programs. This is in addition to over $20 million dollars given to various projects involving condom manufacturing, bi-medical research and manufacture of 6,000 f.p. vehicles. India receives aid from other agencies including the International Planned Parenthood Federation, Rockefeller's Population Council, The Pathfinder Fund, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, CARE, Oxfam and the World Assembly of Youth (WAY), the Peace Corps; UNICEF, the U.N. Fund for Population Activities, and from the nations of Sweden, Denmark and the United Kingdom. (Ed. note- Almost all of the above U. S. based agencies receive the major portion of their funding from A.I.D.). In the Jan. 1972 issue of AID's War on Hunger, an article entitled "Selling Vasectomies in India" featured the activities of Dr. Datta Pai, who according to AID writer Cari Purcell is attempting to "liberate his country from the ominous threat of overpopulation". Photographed in the AID publication was the sterilization booths and illuminated scoreboard at Ernakulam District and Dr. Pai's mobile family planning bus. According to the Nov.-Dec. issue of ZPG's National Reporter, Dr. Pai's comprehensive program now includes "services from sterilization to supervised abortions".....if government incentive programs fail, enforced government quotas would be next, Dr. Pai believes. (p. 4). |