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Show Planned Parenthood critical g!of Carter position nteif The National Board of j ''Directors of the Planned i jParenthood Federation of uiu Wriw sharply criticized the (j Carter Administration's pro- posed adolescent pregnancy m(j !initiative, charging that the (j ' Administration emphasized ;niot itke servic-e to already preg" )e mot teens at the expense pf ( jj (preventative services. It is a jlj ( program, they said, "designed , (primarily not to reduce the p incidence of teenage preg- jjl tancy, but to cope with its (fleets." Th, Planned . Parenthood , jj tatement was released the j lay following the publication U il data from a nation-wide j, urvey conducted by two it. - - John Hopkins University sociologists which showed that pregnancies to U.S. teenagers teen-agers rose one-third between 1971 and 1976, and that more than four-fifths of those who became pregnant unintentionally unintention-ally were using no contraceptive contracep-tive to prevent the pregnancy. preg-nancy. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America is the national voluntary family planning organization whose affiliates have provided medically-supervised family planning services to more , than one million persons in . 1976. The Planned Parenthood Parent-hood office in Moab is in the Energy Building, Room 9, or caU 259-6140. |
