Friday, September 28,1973
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Mexico to Curb Population Rise With New Contraception Policy
By HARRY NELSON Special to the Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGLES- In a dramatic reversal of its traditional policy favoring population growth, the Mexican government will soon make family planning services available at all government health clinics for the first time, according to a Planned Parenthood study.
The new policy, reportedly stemming from internal and external concern over Mexico's galloping population growth, comes after a little-publicized pastoral letter on birth control issued last February by an Indian Catholic Mexican Conference bishop.
The stand taken by the bishops appears to contradict "Humanae Vitae," the encyclical issued July 29, 1968, by Pope Paul VI, which stated, "Each and every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life."
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The new policy, hinted at by President Lais Echeveria in his Sept. 2 state of the nation report, is scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1, Dr. Benjamin Viel, executive director of the western Hemisphere Region Office of the United Parenthood Federation, said here.
But because of the lack of official sympathy for family planning for so many years, the services probably will not be available at all clinics by Jan. I because the nation lacks a sufficient number of trained nurses and all the clinics immediately, Dr. Vrill said.
The letter, which apparently supports family planning beyond the already endorsed rhyme method of birth control, was signed by 85 bishops.
However, he added, the Mexican Social Security Administration, which is responsible for health services, will begin offering courses next month to inform physicians of all the new methods of contraception.
Viel said the government clinics would offer all methods of comception but would not use television.
Sources in Mexico City said President Echeveria's sudden turnabout in policy was the result of international opinion about Mexico's population growth and pressure on its economy. The government who were worried about providing jobs for millions of new workers.
Mexico is 3.5 per cent yearly growth rate is one of the highest in the world and the highest among countries of 50 million or more. Its present population of 56 million will double within 20 years if growth continues at the present rate.
In his recent state of the nation report, President Echeverria said, "This is the moment to seriously consider a problem which for some time has been faced by many nations that have a different economic and political structure. Large sectors of our population are worried about the problem of the growth of the family."
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For the 10th consecutive semester, the University Daily Kansas has received an All-American rating by the Associated Collegiate Press.
The award, for last semester, was announced yesterday by the All-American Critical Service. All-American is the highest rating given.
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He said thousands of Mexican women had been asking government and private clinics to help them.
Echeverria said he rejected the idea that merely reducing births would solve the nation's economic development problems, but added, "We would be committing a grave error in the future by increasing the increase of the population and the needs this increase generates."
According to Dr. Viel, the lack of clinics offering family planning services is the principal reason Latin Americans do not use contraceptives.
He discounted the church's opposition to contraception as being a strong inhibition on the population by pointing to statistics that indicate abortion—vigorously opposed by
the church—is widely practiced in Latin America. Vilage agreed, however, that the church had exerted a strong influence on national policy, if not on individual behavior.
vet, who for seven years ran the family planning program at the University of Chile, said Latin American medical schools have paid scant attention to family planning in teaching students because of the opposition of the leftist movement, "which is more important than the opposition of the Catholic Church."
The leftists oppose family planning, he said, because they believe a rapidly growing population would create the kind of violence that would lead to the revolution they desire.
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British Seek Desertion Pamphleteers
Carrying the letterhead "The Campaign for British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland," the pamphlets have turned up in barcards around Britain.
LONDON, (AFP) - Special branch detectives are trying to locate the source of pamphlets calling upon British soldiers to desert if ordered to Ulster.
They suggested that soldiers desert to Sweden, and gave information on Swedish reception centers and tips about how to apply for political asylum.
However, at the London headquarters of the campaign there was surprise over the special branch inquiry.
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A spokesman said that pamphlets had been circulating for three months, and that two people arrested while inhabitent them were acquitted a week ago.
The pamphlets were not illegal documents, he said.
"The 'campaign' spokeman did not rule out the possibility that the recently distributed pamphlets were put out by a splinter group.
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