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Show The UTAH INDEPENDENT Page 4 February 18, 1972 in this, and some of the titles even embarrass you to read. Haslam went on to say that af- Parenthood Planners Lose License the indigent through the county and felt that Planned Parenthood would be an expensive duplication that would cost the taxpayers up to $300,000. "Why do they have to have $300,000 of tax money to fund something like this?" she asked. Holding up some pamphlets distributed by Planned Parenthood, Mrs. Wilcox said; "Youre welcome to come and look at these. This pamphlet is directed at the boy who feels he is not responsible enough or mature enough to accept the responsibility of marriage and pregnancy. Therefore, if he is gong to go out with a girl and be immoral, make sure he Continued From Page I our advantage to undergo any further public confronta-tio- n at the present time." The letter signed by Mrs. Eaton stated, "Because of the extreme feel it is emotionalism which was involved in Bountiful, Planned Pap enthood Association of Utah will not be available to participate in a public hearing at this time." Asked by the audience for an explanation of what the Planned Parenthood program was, the mayor said that in company with City Manager Clarence Stoker, he went to their executive office in Salt Lake City and made the same inquiry of their officials. Said the mayor: "VVV spent about an hour with these people trying to find out exactly what their program was. They say that the program is primarily for the poor people, that its to help people mostly on welfare having too large a family. There were asked if they would dispense the pill' to anyone that came in and asked for it. They said no. Sow other peo- ple have testified to the fact that they have told them yes. At the Planning and Zoning Council meeting held in Bountiful Jan. 19, Fred Sylvester stated that contraceptives would Clyde Heiner, speaking in favor of Planned Parenthood, said that, there are those among us who need this type of aid." the people and of the people, a our community, in a sense what we are saying is I abdicate my responsibility because I dont want anything that challenges or brings something into my life that I have to worry about because Im afraid of what it taught my children." government Mrs. Marie Marshall, a local citizen, reported that her daughter had gone into the Planned Parenthood office at Clearfield and asked for information about birth control. The teenager was not required to give her name nor age. "I would like to comment on a magazine that my daughter got," said Mrs. Marshall. "I didnt consider it literature that 1 would like to read. I resented them giving it to my fourteen-year-ol- d daughter. Mayall in mind the be its Im not I it but isnt saying thought it was a nasty little magazine." Mrs. Bonnie Wilcox pointed to the services already available to four-teen-year-o- ld Mrs. Bonnie Wilcox says, Planned Parenthood duplicates services already provided." takes care of her so she doesnt get pregnant. This other pamphlet is aimed not at the indigent poor mature woman its aimed at the girl leaving home, going away. One mother speaking from the audience described the pamphlets being distributed by Planned Parenthood out of the Clearfield office as being "filthy literature." George Haslam, local citizen and father, questioned the motives of the government in sponsoring a program such as Planned Mayor Gayla Stark of Clear field made tha motion to revoke license of Planned Parenthood Association because of zoning technicality. be distributed to single girls without parental consent, although it would be done under medical prescription. He said the reason for giving contraceptives to single girls is to follow the guidelines of the American Medical Association, which has adopted the view that no woman should be discriminated against by denying her contraceptives just because she is single. Clyde Heiner, "associated with the medical profession," attended the Clearfield meeting and spoke in support of the Planned Parenthood program. He said that there is a need among the poor in our society to protect the unwanted child, usually born out of wedlock, who ends up being an abused child in a foster home. "There are those among us fvho need this type of aid, and I am concerned that they typically belong to racially discriminated," Heiner said. "We have a responsibility to teach our children in our homes the things they should know related to the topic that will be discussed in a family practice clinic. If we say we dont want this in Mrs. Maris Marshall described Planned Parenthood publication as a nasty little magazine." One of the few speaking in favor of Planned Parenthood was Rev. Wiley A. Kehrli of the Clearfield Community Church. ter reading the newspaper accounts and watching the television programs on which Planned Parenthood officials appeared, "my conclusion is that we are taking away personal responsibility for a violation of the moral code of the law of chastity by ' eliminating the inhibiting forces in other words by providing a means whereby a person is not responsible for immorality." Pointing to the services Planned Parenthood has gone on record for providing, Haslam stated, "Recently in Salt Lake City there was considerable agitation against the laxness of the laws relative to prostitution, and yet Parenthood: am representing George Haslam, a citizen of Clearfield, a citizen of the state of Utah, a citizen of the United States of America, which I hope is still a republic . . . and Ive heard some statements here tonight that would make me wonder whether or not were living in a republic under a government that is for whose laws are made by the people and administered by the servants who are holding positions, of responsibli-t- y in the government; and when someone tells me that they can take government tax money and use it for a purpose of foisting something onto the citizenry that is not wanted, I, a citizen, intend to object to it. I, too, have a number of pamphlets, all inscribed Planned Parenthood, and I subscribe to everything that has been said about them. As a matter of fact, 1 would go further and place them in the category of pornoungraphy pure and simple adulterated pornography. I might indicate dressed in sheep's clothing so as to lead one astray. have also a Planned Parenthood publication indicating the number of available publications and there are 180 listed publications Georg Haslam says that tha titles of soma Planned Parenthood publications avan embarrass you to read them." as I analyze this whole problem, we are aiding and abetting a situation which increases and sup- ports prostitution. City Manager Clarence Stoker reported to the audience that a Bountiful City councilman, since Continued On Page 5 HOLLADAYS ELECTRIC MOTOR New Location - 49 East Angelo Hand Tools And Small Appliances Repaired All Electric Motors, Motor Rewinding Phones: Bus. Res. 467-207- 1 LEE 262-521- 5 t j. H0LLADAY 4046 So. 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