{"id":1413,"date":"1965-11-17T03:24:02","date_gmt":"1965-11-17T03:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2018-10-12T03:25:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T03:25:41","slug":"harvard-lecturers-recommend-birth-control-as-solution-to-latin-american-economic-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1965\/11\/17\/harvard-lecturers-recommend-birth-control-as-solution-to-latin-american-economic-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvard lecturers recommend birth control as solution to Latin American economic challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 17, 1965<\/p>\n<p>Harvard lecturers recommend birth control as solution to Latin American economic challenges<\/p>\n<p><i>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 \u201cChallenges of Population Growth\u201d. 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 \u201cThe only effective means of birth control are paying people for not having children or else forbidding them to do so.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1964.11.18-Debators-Advocate-Birth-Control-to-Meet-Economic-%E2%80%9CChallenge%E2%80%9D.jpg\"><b><i>Debators Advocate Birth Control to Meet Economic \u201cChallenge\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 11, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 17, 1965 Harvard lecturers recommend birth control as solution to Latin American economic challenges [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[40,44],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","tag-40","tag-population-control","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}