OEO AND THE SARASOTA PROJECT The Federal According to Mr. Roy J. Schaffer, Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Association of Sarasota County, Inc., an agency funded by the Dept. of HEW. "Girls as young as 12 and 13 can get contraceptive information and or medical care through our program without parental consent...." Mr. Schaffer, who, is handling the OEO project stated that in addition to obtaining a quick test for pregnancy. "We counsel pregnant girls....determine if a therapeutic abortion is possible, or if the baby is definitely wanted". "The basic plan is to keep unwanted children from. being born." he explained, "and since responsible kids are engaging in sex, they should obtain accurate medical information." The family planning project includes information in the areas of birth control, maternity care, sterilization and abortions. (Reprint No. 115-20c). PLANNED PARENTHOOD PUBLICATION NOW In the Oct. 1971 issue of PP's Family Planning Perspectives (pg.5), the transfer of the "Literature and Comment" section of this publication to a new publication called Family Planning Digest was announced. As of Jan. 1972, the Digest has been published and financed by the National Center for Family Planning Services of the Dept. of HEW but prepared by Planned Parenthood-World Population's Publication Unit of the Center for Family Planning Development. According to Mr. Richard Lincoln, PP's Director of Publications, articles to be digested are selected by the NCFPS which is the technical assistance Division of PP over WP, in consultation with NEW's NCFPS. All responsibility for materials published and editorial comment lie with Mr. Lincoln. The Digest, according to Mr. Lincoln, is not a periodical of primary publication but rather a digest of materials already published. Selection is based on "usefulness for professionals involved in organized family planning activities in the United States." The most frequently covered topics covered in this bimonthly 'government' publication are vasectomy, teenage contraceptive programs, abortifacient drugs. Sangerite philosophy. "unwanted children", sex education, and the poor and birth control. on The March issue of the Digest contained a large article "Prostaglandins: New Birth Control Hope or Headache"; the July issue contained another entitled, "Health and Social Impact of Legalized Abortion"; and the Sept. issue evaluated Tietze and Lewit's study on the medical complications of legal abortion. In the May issue under "contraceptive practice" an evaluation of the Human Life Foundation's Conference on Natural Family planning was made. Of the five issues published between Jan. and Sept. 1972, the latter was the only reference made in the Digest to regulation of family size by sexual continence based on the natural rhythms of the body. The Digest also publishes a want ad section for Planned Parenthood affiliates at home and abroad and a few governmental family planning agencies. NOTE: Before taking any action regarding the government financing of this publication, the Coalition plans to offer the Dept. of HEW an opportunity to balance the content of the Digest. The USCL therefore requests that ProLife groups submit published articles on any of the topics mentioned above to: Lynn C. Landman, Editor F. P. Digest, Center for F. P. Programs 515 Madison Ave., PP-WP, NY.Y. N.Y. 10022 FEDERAL AGENCY SPONSORS STERILIZATION CONFERENCE The U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) has granted to the International Project of the Association for Voluntary Sterilization, a contract of $2,000,000.00 for an international conference on voluntary sterilization as a potential method of family planning and fertility limitation. The four day conference, to be held in Geneva from Feb. 25 March 1, 1973, "will provide the groundwork for an international communications network of voluntary organizations, professional and governmental agencies, and other interested groups. The many aspects of the International Project involve public campaigns, training programs; the formation of an international sterilization federation; research and information and communication activities. AID public tax dollars have in recent years been used to finance a number of similar conferences and workshops including (1) a Johns Hopkins Conference on Population Dynamics (1965) (2) a National Academy of Sciences Symposium on Population Policies(1970) (3) a grant to support the general conference of the International Union of Scientific Study of Population in London (1970) (4) the Third International Conference on Prostaglandins held by the N.Y. Academy of Sciences (1971) (5) a grant to support a regional meeting of the International Planned Parenthood Federation in Korea (1965) (6) a grant in support of a 4-day international conference relating to Social Work and Population Dynamics and Family Planning. (1969) (7) International Communication Seminar at U. of North Carolina (1968) (8) Financial support of World Assembly of Youth (WAY) conferences to promote family planning (1969;1970;1971) (9) International Conference of Midwives, London (1971) (10) Family Planning Seminars, PP-Chicago (1970;1971) FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONDUCTS “STOP THE STORK" CAMPAIGN "Can Mass Media Advertising Increase Contraceptive Use?", was the subject of a mass media experiment in family planning, conducted by the Family Planning Evaluation Project of Maternal and Child Health of the U. of North Carolina. The 6 month, multi-media advertising campaign undertaken in four U.S. cities,-Columbus, Ohio, Memphis, Tennessee, Altoona, Pa. and Jackson, Miss., - was financed by the Dept. of HEW's Health Services and Mental Health Administration and the Rockefeller Foundation In addition to covering all research costs, the Division of the Maternal and Child Health Service of HSMHA advanced the project. $30,000 specifically for media plans and basic layouts developed by the J. W. Thompson Company. The Rockefeller grant of $85,000 was used for actual production of advertisements for radio, t. v. magazine, and newspaper ads, while the National Center for Family Planning Services kicked in $252,000 directly for funding family planning projects in the four cities for purchase of media time and space. The Thompson Agency's STOP THE STORK ad, featuring a teenage couple necking on a park bench was directed at the unmarried and the child-saturated married couple while the Robert Blake ads placed emphasis on married couples who want children.....later. The ads were run in Life and Look magazines and on radio and t.v. Conclusions of the mass media campaign indicated that generally it is not an effective means of increasing clinic attendence or in increasing nonclinic sales of contraceptives. (Source-Family Planning Perspectives, Vol. 4, No. 3 July 1972 Reprint from P.P. at 30c per copy.) Ed. Note-A national prolife delegation may want to investigate a Dept. of HEW grant involving the use of the mass media to promote a pro-life mentality in the U. S. NOTE..ABC's TV "Population: Boom or Doom!" documentary made reference to this project involving the mass media and birth control advertising. COMPULSORY BIRTH CONTROL OF FEMALE WELFARE RECIPIENTS PROPOSED 109th General Assembly (State of Ohio) H. B. No. 512 Mr. Netzley A BILL To amend section 5107.03, and to enact section 3709.41 of the Revised Code to The contraceptive drug specified in Mr. Netzley's bill was DEPO PROVERA, to be administered on "an every third month treatment basis" to any person attempting to qualify for ADC support. No ADC child would be eligible for aid unless his mother possessed a written certificate of pregnancy immunization from the Board of Health of a city or general health district. Such immunizations could be administered by (1) a voluntary nonprofit PLANNED PARENTHOOD SERVICE, or (2) a licensed physician. DEPO-PROVERA is a registered drug of the Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo Michigan. In the April 1972 (Vol. 8, No. 4) issue of The Journal of Reproductive Medicine, Dr. T. J. Vecchio, of Upjohn's Medical Research Division outlines the international experience in over 20,000 cases using DEPO-PROVERA for primarily three month regimens. Among the complications listed by Dr. Vecchio were unpredictable patterns of bleeding, some complete amenorrhea, with most women showing olito-amenorrhea i.e. sporadic-irregular menstrual cycles. A few cases required curettages to stop hemorrhaging; others, supplemental dosages of oral estrogen; and there were six thrombotic episodes reported. The average delay in return of fertility was five months. (USCL Reprints No. 121 and No. 122-40c) POPULATION CONTROL AND FUTURE HOMEMAKERS OF AMERICA On Nov. 11th, UPI (N.Y.) ran a wire service feature on a survey on society and the family, conducted by the national Future Homemakers of America (FHA) Public Relations Committee. The report was carried in the Nov. Journal of Home Economics, published by the American Home Economics Association (AHEA). The association and the U.S. Office of Education (USOE) jointly sponsor FHA. Among the areas of concern expressed by the 75 respondents, which supposedly "delivered a kind of consensus among the FHA's half million members" were pollution, overpopulation, male and female roles, etc. One of the selected replies aired by UPI on the subject of family planning was: "My mother contributed more than her fair share to the population explosion. I plan to bear no children as I feel there are too many unwanted babies brought into the world and I can better help in other ways than through motherhood..." Seven months prior to the survey release, Teen Times (May-72) the official mouthpiece of the Future Homemakers of America, which is funded by the American Economics Assoc. and the U.S. Office of Education ran a feature entitled, The Population Liberation Crisis". The introduction of the article is a hard sell for the N.Y. Times population supplement prepared by PP-WP and the Population Crisis Committee from which Congresswoman Patsy Mink's (D-Hawaii) statement was taken and reprinted in full in Teen Times. In addition to the usual population control rhetoric, Mrs. Mink views the question of abortion as a matter of women's rights rather than a population control issue. “Women seeking legalized abortion want the right of control over their own bodies.....it makes more sense to prevent pregnancy that to seek its termination, but the right of termination must exist as a human choice....." "... When we achieve population control, all society will benefit, but the women will win the most, with a new promise of equality," Mrs. Mink concluded. Recommended action by Future Homemakers included writing for the Times supplement; and contributing some ideas for classroom discussion of "this population crisis”. (FHA, National Hdqs. 2010 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036.) POPULATION CONTROL AND THE MASS MEDIA In 1967, a series of Summer Workshops were held at the University of Chicago by the Community and Family Study Center. The proceedings of these workshops were compiled by Donald Bogue into a soft-bound text entitled Mass Communication and Motivation for Birth Control (Ed. note the terms birth control and population control are used interchangeably in the text.) Funds for these workshops and the U. of Chicago's Population Control and Demographic projects and student programs are derived from the following sources: Ford Foundation • Population Council • U.S. Agency for International Development • U. S. Public Health Service • U. S. National Institute • Pan American Union •OCED • Pan American WHO The Bogue compilation includes a student contribution, “A Sign for the Times" by Harry L. Levin (pgs. 315-323.). Among the suggestions made by Mr. Levin were (1) Standardization of population control data into a language system similar to Fortran to analyze and develop input into meaningful terms. (2) The harnessing of material profit in population control programming, i.e., an IID (“Instant Identification Device"), a simple symbol to be used by every population control institution in the state, nation and world. (3) A Demographic Computation Institute, designed to collect and analyze population control matters perhaps under the U.N. (4) A CEASE CORPS - the enlistment of recruits to carry forth the population control message to schools, colleges ect. (5) IUD Holiday Centers using medical traveling teams and facilities (6) Catholics Unanimous or any Group Unanimous - the cultivation of Catholic and other groups who will support government financing and action in population control field. (7) A Birth Control Products version of Avon Products or Fuller Brush. (8) Emphasis on commercial aspects of birth control products...."the sale of contraceptive products offers the largest markup, fastest turn-over of inventory, and largest net profit of any item other than prescription items.” (9) A population-birth control version of Dear Abby! (10) Photo, entertainment or sports ticket incentives for Planned Parenthood visit. (11) Development of youth indoctrination material similar to Dr. Seuss stories..."Jack and Jill Went on the Pill", the creation of early reading and primary grade books on population-birth control theme....... Order from Community and Family Study Center, 1126 E. 59th St., Chicago, 37, Ill. 57-782 O 76-4 MAUDE IS A FRAUD - The USCL joins with Women Concerned for the Unborn Child and our Pro-Life colleagues around the nation in a one-year boycott of all sponsors of MAUDE, CBS's comedy of liberal theology which featured on Nov. 14th and 21st, an abortion-sterilization-population control trilogy. Sponsors, listed below have been notified of the USCL decision: Lipton Tea, Office of the President, Thomas J. Lipton, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 07632 Frito-Lay Office of the President, Dallas, Tex. Norelco, 100 East 42nd Street, New York, N. Y. 10017 General Electric, 570 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022 Mattel Toys, 5150 Rosecrans Boulevard, Hawthorne, Calif., 90025 Breck, Berden Avenue, Wayne, J.J. 07470 and Alberto Culver, 2525 Armitage Avenue, Melrose Park, Ill., 60160. A NOTE.......IN LIGHT OF THE FACT THAT THE STATE DEPARTMENT VIA AID HAS GRANTED MILLIONS OF TAX DOLLARS AT HOME AND ABROAD TO COMMITTED ANTI-LIFE GROUPS, CONFERENCES SUCH AS THOSE SPONSORED BY THE INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION, AND HAS FINANCED SEMINARS ON ABORTIFACIENT RESEARCH. THE U.S.C.L. HAS BEGUN INITIAL PROCEEDINGS TO OBTAIN MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR AID-STATE DEPT. GRANT FOR THE PURPOSE OF HOLDING AN INTERNATIONAL COALITION FOR LIFE CONFERENCE WHICH WILL FEATURE SPECIALISTS IN A WIDE VARIETY OF FIELDS RELATING TO FETAL DEVELOPMENT: REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR: THE MEDICAL, LEGAL, SOCIAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS OF ABORTION, STERILIZATION, AND ENTHANASIA AND OTHER RELATED AREAS. DETAILS TO FOLLOW. POPULATION CONTROL, ABORTION, AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES In November, Dr. Cynthia Wedel, president of the National Council of Churches, told an interviewer in Michigan that abortion is not a matter to be handled by the criminal law or the courts. "Abortion should be decided by the woman and a doctor," Dr. Wedel said, “The length of time before the abortion none of these things ought to be handled by law. This is just not a criminal situation." (Source National Catholic Register - Nov. 12, 1972). It should also be noted that Dr. Wedel sits in the population control camp of the Population Institute the troika which, also features Harold Bostrom (of the VictorBostrom Fund, the fund raising arm of Planned Parenthood), Rodney Shaw, Assoc. for Voluntary Sterilization. Willard Wirtz, Congress for Optimum Population and Rev. John O'Brien, population control advocate from Notre Dame, and Bill Ryerson, of ZPG. The Population Institute's Population Communication Center, (475 Riverside Dr. NY 10027) staffed by David Poindexter and Casey Herrick feeds the mass media their population control pabulum on a regular basis while the Institute's Student Project, (Population Institute, 100 Maryland Ave., NE, Washington, DC 20002) caters to youth and the Institute's Ethics Project, (Wesley Theological Seminary, 4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. 20016) to "ethicicists, theologians, and population experts". The Population Institute is currently offering a $5,000.00 award for the best 30 minute script on population control produced on prime-time television between Sept. 1972 and June, 1973. PROSTAGLANDIN-ABORTIFACIENT RESEARCH AND AID In the January, 1972 Health Services and Mental Health Administration Report (Dept. of HEW, Vol. 87, No. 1-4 Pgs. 41-42) an anonymous article entitled, "Birth Control Method Tried After the Fact" describes federally sponsored abortifacient research and clinical testing at the U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. According to the HSMHA report, the work of Dr. S. Bergstrom at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm in the induction of abortion using prostaglandins, in the late 1960's, stimulated the interest of U. of N.C. researchers. "In August 1970, a research team at the university, headed by Dr. Charles Hendricks, chairman, Department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University's Memorial Hospital began using prostaglandins as abortifacients." In 1971, 46 experimental abortions were carried out on women 6-20 weeks pregnant. "Besides being effective abortifacients, prostaglandins were found to bring on menstruation prior to implantation of the egg.....which normally occurs about six weeks (?) after intercourse." Team researchers Dr. William Brenner and Dr. Frederick Kroncke see prostaglandins as being superior to other birth control methods. The report article concludes, "Until recently, most of the funds for the prostaglandin research have come directly from the U. of N.C., Dept. of Ob.-GYN. with some assistance from the Upjohn Company, which supplies prostaglandins to the investigators. Since mid-July 1971, money has also been received from a grant from the Agency for International Development to the North Carolina Population Center." USCL Reprint No. 120-30c The N.C. Population Center was established in 1966 by a $268,000 grant from AID to provide training facilities and consultative services to AID for development and implementation of population programs. (Project 031.11-570814; csd-1059). Between the period of 1965-1971, the university has received more than $12 million in AID population funding including; $1.6 million for population program designs; 3.1 million for the establishment of an international network of field trial centers to evaluate new methods of fertility control INCLUDING THE SUPPORT OF STUDIES. PROSTAGLANDIN FIELD TRIAL In addition, AID grants for prostaglandin-abortifacient research have been awarded to Worcester Foundation ($2.9 million); U. of Wisconsin ($227,000) Washington University ($293,000) and Makerere U. in Unganda ($821,000). According to AID's Office of Population, all research and testing of "family planning drugs and devices" carried out by AID are in keeping with Title X of the Foreign Assistance Act. CHILD DEVELOPMENT NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE. Dept. of HEW, Office of the Secretary. The U. S. Coalition for Life and its Pro-Life associates have been invited by the Dept. of HEW, Special Projects Division, to submit the names of candidates to be considered for appointment to the Child Development Advisory Committee. The following information is needed in order to consider a candidate for appointment: 1. Name 2. Home address (If student, a parent's address) 3. Business address (If student, a college mailing address) 4. Date and place of birth 5. Education and or Training 6. In Detail - Professional background or Community Contributions 7. In Detail - Special interests as they relate to Professional Background, Community Contributions, or Education and Training. NOTE: Recommendations and endorsement information should be transmitted separately. Pro-Life agencies as well as individuals are asked to submit this resume information for committee evaluation of candidates for appointment to the Child Development National Advisory Committee: Additional information on the authority, structure, and functions of the Committee are available on request from the Dept. of HEW. |