Religion: Birth Control's Week

¶In Colorado Springs, at their 14th national biennial convention last week, the Young Women's Christian Associations reiterated their stand on birth control, unanimously voting to "put sex bootleggers out of business" by supporting legislation to permit dissemination by doctors of contraceptive information.

¶In the Catholic Holy Name Society's Holy Name Journal appeared a blast at Mrs. Thomas Norvel Hepburn, birth control advocate and mother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn. What provoked this sheet to impolite language was Mrs. Hepburn's recent statement that "birth control makes it possible for young people to get married and...

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