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Show Prof. Argues Birth Control "it puts me in a very awkward position. I feel I should be bound by what the Pope says. It all seems to come down to a question ques-tion of 'who's, in charge here'?" A FOURTH speaker, Notre Dame sociologist Donald Barrett, said he felt the Church "would be derelict in its duty if it left fertility regulation and its choice of methods completely up to individual conscience," but said he was "an arden advocate of birth regulation." SOUTH BEND, Ind. (CPS) A Georgetown University professor pro-fessor " of Theology recently termed the Catholic Church's arguments ar-guments against birth control as "completely inefficient." THE PROFESSOR, Louis Dupre, told a Notre Dame symposium sym-posium on the subject that although al-though the Church might have the correct stand, its method of explanation is faulty. "I myself have no position on this," Dupre said. "I will wait until the Church speaks out. But right now, it is "a problem to be discussed." Dupre's views was shared by Dr. John Higglns, a professor of clinical psychiatry at St. Louis University. Dr. Higgins also spoke on the psychological and psyiological problems involved in the use of the rhythm method of contraception, contracep-tion, which he termed "as un- natural as any artificial method of birth control." "THE MARRIAGE act is the essence of the relationship of persons united in the state of marriage," he said. "Rhythm, if only for a short period of time a month, fosters the idea that it is not necessaryr not integral to marriage. This does not meet the nature of the sex act." He said, however, that the system of birth control chosen "must conform with personal moral requirements, as well as the nature of human sexuality." Dr. Higgins said any birth control con-trol method must also be convenient, con-venient, easily learned, reliable and effective. It must fulfill the person's moral requirements as well. Methods other than rhythm fulfill these other requirements, but exclude personal morality, a need which the rhythm method fulfills, he said. Dr, Ralph Kenck, a Chicago obstetrician and gynecologist, disagreed with Dr. Higgins' view of rhythm. "It will work if you want it to work," he said. "If a woman tells me rhythm will not work for her because she can't remember to take her temperature every morning, then I seriously doubt that she could remember to take a pill every day for twenty days either: There has to be proper motivation." DR. KENCK said doctors are bound by certain ethical implications impli-cations on the question of birth control. "When a patient tells me her confessor has given her permission permis-sion to use the pill," he said, |