Family planning services and Population Research Act.
The Senate Human Resources Subcommittee under the chairmanship of Senator Alan Cranston has completed its work on the Family Planning Services and Population Research Amendments of 1973 (S. 1708) and has referred the bill to the Senate Labor  and Public Welfare Committee.  Right-to-Life activists are zeroing in on committee members in hopes of amending the bill to prohibit federal funds for sterilization and continued research on abortifacient drugs.  If such provisions were to be approved, it would prohibit men from obtaining vasectomies with federal assistance and eliminate what has become a most popular birth control method for couples who have reached their desired family size.  Such a prohibition would be especially discriminatory of low income males who cannot afford to finance a vasectomy through the private health care system.  Banning use of IUDs by federal family planning agencies could also interfere with valuable cancer research and the treatment of such ailments as asthma and duodenal ulcers.  The Senate Labor Committee needs to be fully advised as to the dangerous implications of these provisions and of the public opposition to their enactment.  Vocalize your opposition today by urging the committee to exclude such amendments from the legislation they send to the Senate.  The committee members are: Chairman: Williams, New Jersy; Randolph, West Virginia; Pell, Rhode Island; Kennedy, Massachusetts; Nelson, Vermont; Mondale, Minnesota; Eagleton, Missouri; Cranston, California; Hughes, Iowa; Hathaway, Maine;  Javits, New York; Dominick, Colorado; Schweiker, Pennsylvania; Taft, Ohio; Beall, Maryland; and Stafford, Vermont.
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Americas; Developed Countries; Family Planning--legal aspects; North America; Northern America; United States