Show April 27 19 country as an estimated two million Americans have chosen the safest surest and in the long run the cheapest form of contraception r This year more than 100000 other Americans-bettefor ll men-wiopt than 60 percent of them of these will find it Some sterilization voluntary very difficult to obtain the operation This is the nationwide sterilization picture outlined by the Association for Voluntary Sterilization The A VS a nonprofit organization headquartered in New York is devoted to promoting both sterilizatpon as a solution for family and population problems and medical research in the field Sterilization Costs A Ssk' Utah: Lone State Although voluntary sterilization is legal for any reason in 49 states Utah limits it to “medical necessity” and a recent Gallup Poll showed the 64 percent of the country favors it for socioeconomic reasons it is often difficult to obtain particularly for women Rague says that doctors are to blame “So many doctors are ignorant of the facts " “Some fears that the Rague maintains operation is illegal Others fear they will be sued for malpractice although sterilization poses no greater danger in this area than any other medical procedure” Nevertheless Rague continued men can obtain the operation with relative ease There’s always some doctor who will do it and the AVS itself makes referrals to 1600 physicians around the country Women on the other hand are often subject to the whims of hospital committees many of which still follow the recently-changestandard of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology illegal abortions only a handful of others sought out sterilization which was legal in most states Times have changed however so much so that in 1969 the AVS reports getting 3707 requests for referrals to doctors who will perform the operation — quadruple the number of requests in 1966 “There’s a new awareness and new urgency today’’ AVS executive director John Rague says of sterilization’s growing popularity “The decline of American puritanism coupled with the growing problems of birth control abortion and the population explosion have made increasing numbers of people at least consider sterilization” -- Requested By Women Five years ago Rague continued most sterilization requests came from women two Nearby in a doctor’s office a man undergoes a been told he has that operation simple will of two leave him permanently sterile Common Practice In recent years incidents such as these have become Complicated Formula The old standard which Rague says must have been conceived a Houdini called for an formula: no woman could be sterilized unless her age times her number of children mother of three equaled 120 Thus a would be denied the operation because three times 37 equal 111 while if the woman were 40 she would be granted the operation Because the AVS believes that any man or woman over the age of legal consent should be able to elect sterilization the Association last year gave the Mararet Sanger Research Bureau in New York City $30000 to set up the country’s first Vasectomy Service Since early March when a nationwide magazine publicized the existence of the service the clinic has been swamped with phone and letter requests for the operation Who are the most likely candidates for sterilization? AVS records for 1969 show that of 509 operations 78 percent were19 male 10 percent were 25 or younger nearly percent percent were between 26 and 29 224 between were between 30 and 34 22 percent were 35 and 39 and the rest were 40 and over The vast majority of the 509 had at least had incompleted high school and nearly half comes over $10000 age-parit- prowess” In recent years Rague continued more and more men began considering sterilization as the myths perpetuated by rumor were dispelled by an airing of the facts NEW YORK (AP) — In a large metropolitan woman who has just given hospital a birth to her eighth child is sterilized while still on the delivery table Across town in another hosoital an abortion-sterilizatio- n committee has voted to deny the sterilization request of a mother of married and the father d although the female operation was and is more delicate and more costly than for the male More women than men sought the operation Rague maintains for a number of reasons: women who bear both the children and the brunt of the burden of raising them openly discussed sterilization among themselves men largely the because ignored subject historically conhas been a woman’s traception problem and because “men have long equated sterilization with castration and dimunition of sexual NAOMI ROCK AP Newswriter increasingly common across the H- usually perform rteriUzrtons havXin ?“ neither in the man nor in the woman operation interfere with normal 7 a responses The onlv difference woman the egg is prevented from reachL'V uterus and in a man the sperm is prevented from reaching the semen Individuals seeking sterilization are wamM that the procedure is considered irreversible even though studies have proven up to 90 per reversibility for men and 65 percent for women A decade ago the subject of sterilization like that of abortion was seldom considered fit for mixed company But while each year hundreds of thousands of Americans secretly resorted to REPORTING: between -2S “ SalPi"EeCt°my Vari and WM1' Subject: Taboo Population threat adds new urgency vasectomy generally costs Passageways Sealed In both the male and the female sterilization does not involve the removal of any gland or organ It merely seals off the passageways which normally bring the sperm and ovum together Sterilization in a man called a vasectomy minute operation usually involves a under local anesthetic in a doctor’s office The patient can usually go home immediately and to work the following day For a female the operation is done in a hospital where the woman must remain for two or three days Called a salpingectomy the operation involves the cutting and tying off of the Fallopian tubes AVS-arrang- ed Doctor elected Ml D U O Dr Basil C Hansen has been elected president elect of the Department of Higher Education the of A Humor Magazine For Utah Education Association This will be the second term as president for Dr Hansen He has also served as vice president of UEA and board member for seven years Dr Hansen' is professor of educational philosophy in the Department of Education Administration at Utah State USU THE AVAILABLE MAY Mi Something to really laugh about ToictlEIIEllEliEllEIISIIoliH Si M Monday HAPPY HOUR El tsl Isl 75c pitchers ? aIsl 8-- 9 old time flicker movies IE) (Ham it up m Tuesday night) Sl at the Isl n 63 rivi ST3I r”Ti r::i cr:3 c::n cigMOVIE UC 7:00 Thurs 6:30 & 9:30 Fri 35C With Act Card Cosy - Private good food reasonable prfc y |