In testimony before senate committee
Doctor cites undue alarm on pill
WASHINGTON (UPI) Congressional investigators were told Wednesday they had created undue alarm about birth control pills and the result could be more unwanted, unloved, neglected and abandoned children.
Dr. Alan F. Guttmacher, president of Planned Parenthood, said Senate subcommittee hearings on alleged hazards of oral contraceptives had needlessly "created a sense of great alarm" that had triggered a "stampede" away from the pill.
Guttmacher said "the pill is the most effective means yet known to prevent a very serious affliction, unwanted pregnancy. At least 750,000 children born each year were unwanted at the time of their conception. Undoubtedly a significant proportion lead to unloved, neglected and abandoned children."
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Three members of women's liberation, a militant feminist group hissed Guttmacher when he told the small business subcommittee that doctors should be educated about the pill, but not their women patients, who he said lacked the medical background to understand.
But Guttmacher argued that it
was useless to try to educate women about the side effects of the pill. Rather than knowledge, he said, "you get a panic reaction."
Sen. Gaylor Nelson, D-Wis. the subcommittee chairman, said the investigation had done what the Food and Drug Administration failed to do—inform the public the pill is not perfect.
Guttmacher, however, said the subcommittee had done more
than that, citing a poll that reported 18 per cent of pill users had stopped using it and 23 per cent of the rest were considering quitting.
A segregationist, Wallace put together a third party presidential movement in 1968 and picked up 13 million votes. He has said he would do "whatever is necessary" to keep the movement alive.
George Wallace to seek Alabama governorship
Because of the possible tie between his gubernatorial bid and the presidential race, the man Wallace would fight it out with—Gov. Albert P. Brewer — has placed emphasis on a promise to be a "full time governor."
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (UPI)—George C. Wallace is expected to announce Thursday he will seek a new term as Alabama's governor—a move many see as the forerunner of another bid for presidency.
Wallace has been increasingly critical of President Nixon's school desegregation policies in recent months, and should he win a second term as governor, he would have a power base from which to launch a presidential campaign.
The two men would meet in the Democratic primary May 5. Because Alabama Republicans do not plan to field a candidate in November, the primary is, in effect, the election.
Three other candidates beside Brewer have formally qualified to run. They are former Gov. James E. "Big Jim" Folsom, Dothan businessman Charles Woods and segregationist Asa E. "Ace" Carter. The field is the smallest in years.
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He said the subcommittee had unduly alarmed women about such side effects as blood clotting and cancer.
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