American Women — Reproductive rights
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Is population control genocide?
A panel discussion held at the Environmental Teach-in on the University of California campus in Berkeley. Panelists are Dr. Sidney Liebes, a research physicist in the genetics department of Stanford University Medical Center and director of Planned Parenthood in San Mateo; Dr. Ron Hoy, neurophysiologist and post-doctoral fellow in the U.C. Berkeley Department of Zoology;…
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Free abortion in Los Angeles / Sheila Smith interviewed by Don Porsche
Sheila Smith, a volunteer worker at a short-lived free abortion clinic in Los Angeles, talks with KPFA Public Affairs director Don Porsche. Dr. John Gwynne opened the Community Service Center and Women’s Abortion Clinic, an abortion clinic in Los Angeles, on March 16, 1970 in defiance of the abortion laws, and in hopes of testing…
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The Pill / Dr. Benjamin Major and Dr. Harold Williams
Dr. Ben Major and Dr. Harold Williams at Pauley Ballroom, U.C. Berkeley, December 3, 1969, debating over the birth control pill. Dr. Major from Planned Parenthood takes issue with Dr. Williams’ book “The Pill In New Perspective: Pregnant or Dead.” The two men debate over the moral and physical aspects of birth control pills. Dr.…
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Family planning : prejudice and politics / Dr. Bruce Jessup and Douglas Stewart.
The second session of the conference held at the U.C. Medical Center, San Francisco, September 14-15, 1968. Dr. Bruce Jessup of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare talks about programs in the United States. Douglas Stewart, director of community relations, Planned Parenthood World Population, speaks on the question of genocide. The session ends with…
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California Conference on abortion, 1969 / Dr. Garrett Hardin and Ginny Kenny.
Two talks delivered at the California Conference on Therapeutic Abortion, which took place in San Francisco in May 1969. The first talk is by Dr. Garrett Hardin, chairman of the Conference and professor of ecology at UC Santa Barbara, and is titled “We Need Abortion for the Children’s Sake.” The second talk is delivered by…
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The Abortion handbook / Pat Maginnis ; interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson.
Author Pat Maginnis, joint author with Lana Clark Phelan of The Abortion Handbook (Contact Books, 1969), discusses her book with Elsa Knight Thompson. They discuss the declining practice of midwifery, the religious and political forces driving anti-abortion sentiment, and how to change public perception of the practice of abortion.
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Abortion: inside and outside the hospital / moderated by Lucinda Cisler and James Clapp (Episode 2)
This is the same tape as BB3770.02, broadcast as the second episode of the WBAI produced Abortion (1969) series. James Clapp and Lucinda Cisler, members of the Abortion Committee of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women, host the program. Their guest in-studio is Bernard Nathanson, M.D., assistant professor of obstetrics and…
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Planned parenthood in the ghetto / Emily Lewis and Dr. Edward Lampley interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson
Dr. Edward Lampley and Emily Lewis talk with Elsa Knight Thompson about the problems of birth control work in minority areas. Mrs. Lewis is Clinic Director of the Planned Parenthood Clinics in Alameda County and Dr. Lampley, who has had three years experience in Harlem hospitals, is the new director of the East Oakland Planned…
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The population bomb / Dennis Parnell and Paul Ehrlich interviewed by Al Silbowitz
An interview with Stanford Professor Paul R. Ehrlich (noted population biologist and author of the book titled “The Population Bomb,”) and Professor Dennis Parnell (Catholic scientist and biologist at California State College at Hayward). They talk with Al Silbowitz about the drastic measures called for by the increasingly critical population explosion, and about Pope Paul’s…