The Omaha guide., 1945-05-26

strikes against him in his fight for
a decent future and a place in the
world"
In order that there should be no
misunderstanding of the meaning
and purposes of planned parenthood,
Mrs. Key cited these facts:
l. Planned parenthood does not
mean using contraceptives not to
have babies 1t means using med
ically prescribed methods SO that
each member of the family will
come into life in good health and
wanted by its parents. Years ago
the first emphasis of birth control
was on family Limitation and still is
in advising those parents to whom
another child might mean death Of
the mother or added misery.
Since then, however. emphasis of
planned parenthood has shifted to
child-spacing- each moth
er needed rest and recuperation be
tween each birth.
q Most recently, planned parent
hood has come to include treatment
Of infertility for childless couples
who want children but have been un
able to have them Medical serv-
ices for treatment of infertility are
still limited but planned parent
hood organizations are encouraging
their establishment. In January
1945. the Planned Parenthood Fed
Grafton presented awards to medic
al scientists who have been studying
the causes of involuntary childless
ness, including DR.. John Macleod
of Cornell Medical College. This
work is of great Importance to Ne
groes-because twice as many Ne
gro couples as white couples are un-
able to have children.
8. Planned Parenthood is not
"quack medicine but a widely ap-
proved health measure Most doc
tors now believe in it and it has
been approved by both the Americ-
an Medical Association and the Ma
tional Medical Association. 1t also
has the support of the U. s. Public
Health Service which has stated that
amy state deciding to develop a
planned parenthood program could
expect from the Public Health Ser
vice the same consideration that
would be given to any other propos-
al in connection with its state healt
work -
Already six saetts officially have
set up such programs
A. The planned parenthood move
ment is supported entirely by priv
ate contributions The funds in
cIude donations from many import
ant foundations who scrupulously
examine the planned parenthood pro
gram from the standpoint of its bene
fits to each Of the individual famil-
les it serves and to the health of the
nation as a whole.
5 To extend clinic services to
reach all Negro families desiring
them and to interpret the planned
parenthood program to them, Sin
areas have been selected for demon
stration ts-Washington, DC
the State Of Florida; Columbus. Ohio
Harlem in New York; Omaha, Neb
and Atlanta. Ga Each Of these
areas is being visited by Mrs. Key
or Miss Mary E Langford. field
consultant on work with Negroes
to organize an educational family
health program with other interest
ed agencies. to seek integration OF
Negroes on planned parenthood
boards and committees and to raise
standards of clinic servires
''The extension of planned parent
hood to reach millions Of colored
families now handicapped for lack
of this knowledge is not a panacea
for all the ills of the race Mrs
Key declared.
But planned parenthood, toget-
her with X-rays for tuberculosis
penicillin and the wonder drugs, "
D. control. ma dother health meas.
ures can help the Negro family t
atteain a position of greater streng
tn and security in America.
Negro participation in planned
parenthood means democratic partiC
ipation in a domestic idea. Like
other democratic ideas. planned par
! enthood places greater value on hu-