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Birth Control / Nixon Plan #204603

CBS Evening News for Friday, Jul 18, 1969
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(Studio) Nixon administration proposes making birth control information and devices available to poor women. Plan to cost $150 million year
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

(DC) Plan is that birth control and prenatal care information be available to all women by 1976. [Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert FINCH - attributes vicious cycle of poverty to lack of birth control.] [President Assistant Urban Affairs Daniel MOYNIHAN - says plan respects private feelings on matter. People can freely choose what to do.]
REPORTER: Dan Rather

Reporter(s):
Rather, Dan;
Reasoner, Harry
Duration:
00:02:10

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