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YEAR: 1968

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Government's role in family planning.

AUTHORS

SOURCE

In: O'Brien JA, ed. Family planning in an exploding population. New York,

Hawthorn, 1968. :87-124.

ABSTRACT

Summary of U.S. Roman Catholic views on birth control, as expressed by an official statement and various reactions

to it. In November 1966 the body of Catholic bishops issued a statement at their annual meeting regarding the role of

government in family planning. The government was accused of invading the freedom and privacy of the family, and

coercing families dependent on welfare to accept family planning services; and of making acceptance of birth control

programs a condition for aid to foreign countries. Birth control programs were seen as interfering with the couple's

own freedom of decision in procreation. The statement invoked replies from various government agencies, religious

councils and individuals deploring various aspects of the statement, especially the undocumented accusation of

governmental coercion and the disregard for population and production statistics. The only censorship-free Catholic

publications carried criticisms of the statement as poorly thought out, regressive, and disingenuous in that it was

really intended to undercut birth control itself. The publications also made the point that to deny information about

and access to birth control was not to enhance, but to deny freedom in planning the number and spacing of children.

A number of Catholic scholars spoke out as well, supporting government aid for birth control and denying that the

statement was representative of Catholics in general. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT9T 1069-06)

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of this article is "In: O'Brien JA, ed. Family planning in an exploding population. New York, Hawthorn, 1968. :87-

124.". This article was published in 1968 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT9T 1069-06.

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