November 17, 1965
Harvard lecturers recommend birth control as solution to Latin American economic challenges
As part of the Smith Challenge Lecture series, Deiter Koch-Weser and Stephen J. Plank from the Harvard School of Public Health gave a lecture on the “Challenges of Population Growth”. They focused on Latin America and compared population growth to economic development, making a case for the U.S. to invest in and take measures for birth control in those countries. In relation to their lecture, the Sophian reported that “The only effective means of birth control are paying people for not having children or else forbidding them to do so.”
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