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Tuesday, April 4, 1972
University Daily Kansan
ZPG. Women's Goals Differ
KU Groups Urge Birth Control
By JUDY HENRY Kansan Staff Writer
Birth control has emerged as a common means of attaining the emergent goal of menopausal group, Zero Population Growth (ZPG), and the women's equal movement. The women's equal movement quality and freedom for women are fostered by contraception, according to spokesmen for both
She said there was reason to be concerned because of the short time it takes a population to become highly developed, technical societies have problems that result from their population size but not their countries, double their populations so fast that the countries cannot keep pace. Food, housing, medical facilities, transportation everything necessary for survival, make Peacepeace, could not keep up with the growth rate of urbanization much less in a developing one.
"WHERE DO HUMAN rights come into the picture?" she said. "It's clear—the poor are suffering."
ZPG is concerned with the future state of the world, which includes the ecological balance, food security and health, said that the rising population, which doubles every 25 years in some areas of the world, created a stress on critical natural resources that found only in limited quantities.
Mary Makepeace, instructor in biology and a member of XPG, said recently the group was concerned that people of the community had same rights or opportunities for survival as do those today.
Zero population growth, which would help control the future climate, is achieved when there is an abundance of children per family. Makepace and me.
ACCORDING TO the presidential Commission on Population Growth and the United Nations' population increased from 76 million in 1900 to 205 million in 1970. The commission predicted that by 1980 the average of two children and immigration rates remained at the current level among the United States by 2000. If there was an average of three children per person in the United States by 2000, if there was an average of three children per person in the United States by the year 2000.
SHE SAID that there was a good chance, war or disease, world occur if the patient remained contained at the present rate.
Makepeace said that ZPG strongly supported the Women's Liberation movement because it was concerned with the same thing. President Kennedy's Women said in 1963 that one of the greatest freedoms of an individual in a democratic society choose among different life patterns, Makepeace said. She emphasized that individual rights were not so large.
Smaller families, she said, made more life patterns open to women and gave men more opportunities. A small family has the opportunity to pursue her self-identity and personal and professional goals. Not only would the woman be more fulfilled as a person, she said, but the family would be better structured as a result.
MAKEPEACE ACKNOWLEDGED the problems a woman could have trying to find a job with the tight job requirements, the best qualified person should get the job, she said, there are women who must work to support a family in the same or the head of a family.
"Our society should accept childless and single women on an equal basis with men," she said.
ZPG SUGGESTS population control mainly through birth control methods.
*basic basis with men," she said.
Makeupsaid ZPG advocated a family size of two children, although those with no children compensated in part for those with more than two. She suggested it better to adopt if a couple wanted more than two children.
"Any method is all right," said Makepeace, "particularly any kind that's effective—the pill, sterilization or the IUD."
The object, she said, was not to force any one on people. We did not suggest that people should not be sterilized unless they had had sex with someone. We suggested
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THE 1971 CENSUS, she said,
showed the lowest birth rate
since the depression, which
had been one of the high
cost of raising children.
"I hope there are more things involved than just that," she said.
"such as the need for self attainment in women, the environment, and even more own identity," the kind of world for the future.
Martha Ward, assistant to the dean of women, said that Women's Equality was making women more aware that they could do something outside of the home instead of staying home with their children.
SHE SAID people were becoming increasingly aware of the equality of women, especially in rural areas, the process of planning families.
"I don't know if it's nature, but Women's Equality is helping to cause lower birth rates," she said.
"It's fine to stay home and have children,"she said."Maybe
women's rights can elevate the housewife's role to be equal to other professions."
She said she thought that women should have the free choice to realize their potential outside the home or to stay home and raise children. Ward said she thought a woman with many years of experience that they would be using up natural resources others could use.
Ward said she thought PZG and the women's groups were saying the same thing on birth control and abortion. She said she hoped they could work together to resolve the legal problems of abortion.
ANN FRANCEK, Prairie Village sophomore and a February Sister, said, "APG is trying to subvert Women's
Liberation to it's own ends. I see it as very dangerous."
She said that birth control, a cause that ZPG picked up, was originally a woman's issue and the concept of the free woman.
ZPG and women's groups parted ways, she said, when a segment told her taking talkened to armed sterilizers to limit the number of children.
Makepeace discussed birth control as viewed by the two parents, and the decision of taking care of problems by using his intellect, rather than
"IT'S A MIRACULOUS phenomenon—using the mind to overcome the problem. Man is in the position of controlling destiny."
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