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PARENTHOOD ASSOCIATION!
A TEENAGE GIRL CLINIC is held twice each month at the
Richmond County Health Department on the 2nd and 4th
Monday afternoons of each month from 3:30 to 6:00, staffed by
Dr. Virginia McNamarra. Appointments should be made ahead of
time by calling 722-0440. All personal information is kept
confidential. First, birth control methods are explained. Then,
Dr. McNamarra gives a thorough physical examination. Finally,
after consultation is complete a birth control method best fitting
that individual is chosen by the teenager. This is all paid for
previously by taxes.
EMOTIONAL UPHEAVAL lures young girls into pregnancy,
according to a report by Dr. Robert A. Kinch, to the 6th World
Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics. One hundred fifty
unmarried girls were questioned and the following conclusions
drawn: Sexual relations were apparently carried on to make up
for feeling of emptiness, loneliness and inadequacy. The youngest
mothers more often come from homes broken up before they
were ten years of age. Those below sixteen had the least
satisfactory parental relationships. The pregnant schoolgirls
generally felt isolated and had few friends. Most started dating
before they were fourteen and had intercourse before age sixteen.
They were not promiscuous. The majority had intercourse with
only one boy; only one had relations with more than two. Few of
the girls used contraceptives as they were “difficult to obtain”.
POSSIBLE BREAKTHROUGH A noted Indian gynecologist
has developed a reversible female sterilization operation which
could provide the key to the fight against overpopulation. At a
meeting in Los Angeles, Dr. V.N. Shirodkar described the fifteen
minute surgical procedure which take? place under local
anesthesia. Flaplike layers of skin are pulled over the cervix of the
uterus and are stitched together, forming a shield. If a woman
thus sterilized chooses to have a child later on, a physician can
simply undo the stitches or open up a hole in the shield in order
to allow sperm to enter the uterus. Dr. Shirodkar emphasized that
much research is planned before the method can be fully
endorsed as effective.
DROP IN MORTALITY Deaths from abortions have’declined
sharply in California since the state liberalized abortion laws there
three years ago. A university of California Medical School
professor, Dr. Gray Stewart, told 3000 physicians attending the
American Academy of General Practice convention that
statewide, the death rate dropped from 8 per 100,000 in 1967 to
3 per 100,000 last year. He credited the reduction in deaths to
the decrease in illegal abortions.
CHILD BEATERS BREED CHILD BEATERS “Twenty-eight
per cent of the people who beat their children have themselves
been beaten... We have to do something about the battered child,
because he is going to beat somebody when he grows up.” These
shocking remarks were made by Dr. Edward F. Lenoski at a
conference at the University of Southern California School of
Medicine. Who are the victims? Seventy-five per cent of the
children are under four years of age; twenty-five per cent are
under one; boys are beaten more often than girls; there are more
beatings at holiday time. People who do the beating represent a
cross-section of society; rarely are they under twenty or over
forty. Men do more beating than women, but women kill their
children more often.
AFRICAN POPULATION CONFERENCE The International
Planned Parenthood Federation has accepted the invitation of the
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the
International Union for the Scientific Study of Population to
cooperate in the preparations for the 1971 African Population
Conference. It will be the first of its kind to take place in Africa.
TWO TO ONE For every birth in America, Detroit makes two
more motor vehicles, according to U.S. Department of
Transportation calculations. DOT Secretary John Volpe said that
the population growth rate is 6,000 persons daily, while motor
vehicles are increasing at a rate of 12,000 per day. California leads
the nation with 12 million of the nearly 109 million vehicles
expected to be registered by the end of 1970.
PTA ASKS REPEAL The Chicago Region PTA has adopted a
resolution calling for total repeal of the Illinois abortion law. The
resolution calls abortion “the private moral and medical
responsibility of the pregnant woman and her physician.”
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Fort Gordon Has Grave Drug
Abuse Problem
By PFC Tom Humphrey
Fort Gordon is no exception
to the drug abuse problem
which has plagued the Army
and American society as a
whole in recent years. As in
most places, the number of
persons charged with drug
abuse has soared to several
times the number of four or
five years ago.
According to the Provost
Marshal’s office, 139 soldiers
stationed at Fort Gordon were
arrested and charged with some
form of drug abuse during the
first two quarters of fiscal year
1971.
Seventy-two of these
soldiers were charged with use,
possession or sale of marijuana.
Os the remaining 67, a
majority were charged in
connection with “dangerous
drugs,” usually prescription
drugs obtained or used illegally
and colloquially referred to as
“pep Pills”, “uppers” and
“downers.” The remaining
arrest involved narcotics
-heroin, opium, cocaine and
other “hard drugs.*’
These figures include both
the arrests made by military
authorities and those made by
civilian law enforcement
agencies.
Many of the arrests in the
latter category were made by
officers under the late
WHO HAS ABORTIONS? A study of the first 1000 women
who came for assistance to the Clergy Counseling Service Center
in Los Angeles since its opening in June, reveals the following
facts: 50% were twenty-one or younger; 54% came in at eleven
weeks and below; 75% had twelve or more years of education;
57% were single, 23% married, 20% divorced, separated or
widowed; 24% were Roman Catholic; 67% were Caucasian. A
study of 1205 women seen by the Clergy Consultation Service on
Problem Pregnancies in Chicago provides us with these figures:
7.6% were seventeen or younger, 56.4% were eighteen to
twenty-five, 29% were twenty-six to thirty-nine years of age; 62%
were single, 29% were married; 30% were Roman Catholic; 89.4%
were Caucasian.
BOOKLET DISTRIBUTED The biggest Roman Catholic
university in the world is distributing to its freshmen a booklet on
sex - complete with birth control advice. It was written by a
group of professors, priests and students of Louvain University in
Belgium. The authors said the number of pregnancies was rising
among the unmarried college students. They insisted that the use
of birth control means should have been taught much earlier, in
school or at home.
PROBLEM BABIES Compared with the offspring of more
mature mothers, children born to teenage mothers are more likely
to be underweight and shorter, to have infantile behavior
problems and acting out difficulties, and also to have lower IQs
and reading deficiencies. These sequelae of teen-age births were
reported to the American Public Health Association’s annual
meeting in Houston by Dr. Wallace C. Opel of Johns Hopkins. His
findings were based on a ten year follow-up of 172 children born
to eighty-six mothers who gave birth under age eighteen and
eighty-six mothers who delivered at age eighteen and older.
Mothers under eighteen are less likely to remain with their
children, less likely to rear their children in families rated by
social workers as healthy, likely to have more children during a
six to eight year period following the birth of the study child, less
likely to be anxious, and more likely to believe that their children
should be given more freedom to act independently. Dr. Opel
recommended that young people be educated about the risks to
children conceived during adolescence “so that some such
pregnancies may be prevented either through abstinence from
sexual relationships or through the use of contraceptive
measures...”
TECHNIQUES STUDIED Seven Indian Obstetricians, most of
them already involved in family planning activities, visited Europe
last summer to study abortion techniques and the altered social
situation brought about by recent changes in legislation. The visit
was requested by the Family Planning Association of India in
anticipation of amendments in the abortion law there. It was
arranged by the International Planned Parenthood Federation
Medical Department which was able to include four American
doctors in the tour of England and Yugoslavia. In England the
doctors observed three consultants at work who use different
abortion techniques. Subsequently round-table discussions were
held with them and their staffs. Also discussed was the use of
prostaglandin (a male harmone) in inducing abortion by bringing
on menstruation.
Richmond County Sheriff E.R.
Atkins. The Sheriff said
drug-related offenses have
increased “well over 100
percent” among both soldiers
and civilians since he became
sheriff in late 1967. Atkins said
the sheriffs department has
recently purchased new
equipment for identifying
drugs and has stepped up its
campaign to apprehend drug
abusers particularly “pushers.”
Like their civilian
counterparts, military police in
recent years have also stepped
up their campaign against those
who use drugs illegally. In
addition to cooperating with
civilian authorities in
investigations involving drug
abuse or traffic among military
personnel, military authorities
employ dogs trained to sniff
out marijuana, searchers and
inspections in an effort to
control drug abuse.
The soldier arrested on a
drug charge may face a double
dose of punishment. At Fort
Gordon, as at many CONUS
military bases, the individual
soldier arrested on drug abuse
charges by civilian authorities
usually faces trial in civilian
courts. In Georgia, that can
mean up to five years in jail
and a $2,000 fine for the first
offense. And, if the soldier’s
commanding officer feels that
the individual’s use of drugs
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performing his duties, he may
take other action, up to and
including an undesirable
discharge for the individual.
When arrested by military
authorities, disciplinary action
is left to the discrimination of
the individual’s commanding
officer.
Col. James R. Burkhard,
special assistant to the Deputy
Commanding Officer at Fort
Gordon, administers the post’s
drug abuse program. Plans are
now being considered to
broaden the program including
setting up special facilities for
handling soldiers using drugs.
Details were not available on
the plans, however.
“The military faces a very
grave problem in drug abuse,”
said Col. Burkhart, a burly man
with over thirty years Army
service. “It’s a problem across
the board. The situation at
Gordon is no better, no worse
than anywhere else. A major
need is for people to take
cognizance of the facts and
realize that we have a problem
of some magnitude.”
In striking contrast to the
number of Fort Gordon
personnel arrested on drug
abuse charges, Col. Burkhart
says that, as far as he has been
able to determine, only 16
Fort Gordon soldiers have
taken advantage of the Army’s
new drug amnesty program.
These men signed a statement
admitting they are taking drugs
and in return are not
prosecuted and receive
counseling and treatment for
their problem.
Burkhart expects the
number of soldiers taking
advantage of the amnesty
program to increase when new
facilities currently being
planned for treatment on drugs
are put into operation.
In addition to the drug
amnesty program and law
enforcement, the Army’s other
major approach to the drug
abuse problem under AR
600-32 is “an aggressive
preventive program” through
education. This comes in the
form of films, pamphlets,
discussions and information
presented in command
information periods. “It’s to
judge the effectiveness of these
information programs, but I
believe we can safely say they
are beneficial,” says Col.
Burkhart. He adds, however,
that there is a continuing need
to try and improve the drug
information program.
The question of why
soldiers, or anyone else,
becomes a drug abuser has long
been a topic of considerable
scientific and sociological
debate. “It’s difficult to say”
what leads an individual to
drug abuse, says Col. Burkhart.
“Experimentation, pressure
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from peer groups-both figures
into this thing and leads people
into doing things they’re not
supposed to and that are
outside the law. In the days of
prohibition, a lot of people in
my generation drank booze
even though it was illegal
because it was accepted by
their peer group. Perhaps drugs
are becoming the alcohol of
today.”
A six-member Defense
Department team that
investigated the military drug
abuse problem earlier this year
concluded that increasing drug
abuse in the military services
may be due largely to a
“generation gap” between
career NCOs and officers and
their enlisted men. The study,
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servicemen stationed overseas,
indicated that many men may
turn to drug abuse out of
frustration at the lack of
understanding for their
problems on the part of the
senior NCOs and officers, and
endorsed a suggestion that the
career man “be more of a
social psychologist and in some
cases ask the man a few
questions about the situation
and his reasoning. The sergeant
should not be so inflexible as
to polarize the situation.”
Both Burkhart and Sheriff
Atkins feel that some soldiers
arrested for drug abuse here
picked up that habit in
Vietnam, though it is hard to
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determine just how many.
Drugs are cheap and
plentiful in the Orient,” says
Col. Burkhart, “On the
battlefields, particularly in a
war such as the one we are now
engaged in, there are often long
periods of tension combined
with boredom. This, along with
the easy access to drugs can
lead young men into drug
abuse. And of course some of
these men bring their habit
back home-both to military
and civilian life.”
“It’s bad to see anyone
involved in drug abuse, but to
me it’s an especially sad thing
to see a young man who’s
served his country in war and
picked up the drug habit there.
But it’s still the law. I feel that
drug use, especially the hard
stuff like heroin, ruins young
people and puts them in the
gutter. It’s morally and
physically bad,” said the late
Sheriff Atkins.
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