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Footnotes 1227
of these were in California). Clearly the South leads in the public acceptance of birth
control. (“Distribution of Birth Control Centers and Services,” mimeographed sheet,
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. [July, 1942].)
The facts for this paragraph have been generously provided by Miss Florence
Rose of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (interview, August 21, 1942).
Also see:
1. Claude C. Pierce, “State Programs for Planned Parenthood,” address read at
the Conference of State and Provincial Health Authorities of North America,
Washington, D.C., March 23-24, 1942.
2. G. M. Cooper, F. R. Pratt, and M. J. Hagood, “Four Years of Contraception as
a Public Health Service in North Carolina,” American Journal of Public Health
(December 1941), p. 2.
3. George M. Cooper, “Birth Control in the North Carolina Health Department,”
North Carolina Medical Journal (September, 1940), p. 463.
4. Robert Seibels, “The Integration of Pregnancy Spacing into a State Maternal
Welfare Program,” Southern Medicine and Surgery (May, 1940), pp. 230-233.
5. J. N. Baker, Director, Alabama State Department of Health, “Alabama’s Program
for Planned Parenthood,” address delivered at the Third Southern Conference
on Tomorrow’s Children, Nashville, Tennessee, October 31, 1941.
Address by Dorothy Boulding Ferebee at the Annual Meeting of the Birth Control
Federation of America, January 29, 1942.
Information made available by Miss Florence Rose of the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America (interview, August 21, 1942).
For a discussion of these prejudices among Negroes, see an address given by Dr.
Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, “Planned Parenthood as a Public Health Measure for the
Negro Race,” delivered at the annual meeting of the Birth Control Federation of
America, January 29, 1942. Dr. Ferebee lists the popular objections as:
1. the concept that when birth control is proposed to them, it is motivated by a
clever bit of machination to persuade them to commit race suicide;
2. the so-called “husband-objection” which Dr. Robert E. Seibels of the South
Carolina rural project observes “is often blamed on physical reactions to the
material, but apparently is related more to superstitious fear of impairment of
function through interference with a vital process.”
3. the fact that birth control is confused with abortion, and,
4. the belief that it is inherently immoral.
Ibid.f for a study showing the greater inefficiency of Negro women in using contra-
ceptives, see Pearl, The Natural History of Popdation^ pp. 113-114. 193. On the
other hand, the Planned Parenthood Federation’s experiment in Berkeley County,
South Carolina, led to the conclusion that “80 per cent of the contacted population of
Negroes of low income and low intelligence level will use pregnancy spacing methods
when this is properly presented to them.” (Robert E. Seibels, “A Rural Project in
Negro Maternal Health,” Human Fertility [April, 1941], p. 44.) After two years of
the Federation’s project at Nashville, 58 per cent of the 610 patients instructed used
the method prescribed “consistently” and successfully (McCarroll, of» cit,y p. 8.)
The following discussion is largely based on a similar one regarding Sweden, by
Alva Myrdal, of. cit.^ p. 200 ff.
There are several controversial issues involved in the above suggestion that an
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