Questions and Answers about Planned Parenthood
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Title: Questions and Answers about Planned Parenthood
Creator: Virginia League for Planned Parenthood, Inc.
Date: c. 1940-1944
Source: M 333 Box 1, The Virginia League for Planned Parenthood Records, 1935-2004
Description: This publication from The Virginia League for Planned Parenthood, Inc. promotes the idea of "Well Mothers...Wanted Babies" and answers frequently asked questions about family planning and "baby spacing."
Is Planned Parenthood Safe and Harmless?
YES. There is no evidence of harm from the proper use of medically directed methods of birth control. On the contrary there is evidence of better health and happiness for both parents and children.
Is There Any Danger of the Population Being Dangerously Reduced if Birth Control Knowledge and Methods Are Made Available?
Birth Control measures, (though often harmful methods,) are now generally used by all classes of society except the least educated, the most impoverished, and those having the highest tuberculosis, syphilis, and other health problems, including certain hereditary defects.... Birth control, the evidence shows, does not endanger a healthy population growth, and it makes possible a reduction in maternal deaths, in infant deaths, and an improvement in the 'quality of life' for those who are born--born to mothers seeking motherhood in health and security.
Is Birth Control Legal?
YES. Birth control under medical direction is legal. Federal Laws of 1873, which formerly classed birth control as "obscenity," have now been interpreted by rulings of the U.S. District Courts and United States Circuit Court of Appeals in 1936 that the "design of the Federal Statutes was not to prevent the sale or carriage by mail of things which might intelligently be employed by conscientious and competent physicians for the purpose of saving life or promoting the well-being of their patients."
Is Planned Parenthood Safe and Harmless?
YES. There is no evidence of harm from the proper use of medically directed methods of birth control. On the contrary there is evidence of better health and happiness for both parents and children.
Is There Any Danger of the Population Being Dangerously Reduced if Birth Control Knowledge and Methods Are Made Available?
Birth Control measures, (though often harmful methods,) are now generally used by all classes of society except the least educated, the most impoverished, and those having the highest tuberculosis, syphilis, and other health problems, including certain hereditary defects.... Birth control, the evidence shows, does not endanger a healthy population growth, and it makes possible a reduction in maternal deaths, in infant deaths, and an improvement in the 'quality of life' for those who are born--born to mothers seeking motherhood in health and security.
Is Birth Control Legal?
YES. Birth control under medical direction is legal. Federal Laws of 1873, which formerly classed birth control as "obscenity," have now been interpreted by rulings of the U.S. District Courts and United States Circuit Court of Appeals in 1936 that the "design of the Federal Statutes was not to prevent the sale or carriage by mail of things which might intelligently be employed by conscientious and competent physicians for the purpose of saving life or promoting the well-being of their patients."
Citation: Virginia League for Planned Parenthood, Inc., “Questions and Answers about Planned Parenthood,” VCU Libraries Gallery, accessed December 18, 2024, https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/items/show/79295.