1958 - Population

Population

China's birth control program of 1954 ends as China begins a Great Leap Forward (see 1962).

London-born Roman Catholic Oxford agricultural economist Colin Clark, 53, deplores birth control. He writes in the magazine Nature, "When we look at the British in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, at the Greeks in the sixth century B.C., the Dutch in the seventeenth century, and the Japanese in the nineteenth century, we must conclude that the pressure of population upon limited agricultural resources provides a painful but ultimately beneficial stimulus, provoking unenterprising agrarian communities into greater efforts in the fields of industry, commerce, political leadership colonization, science, and [sometimes . . . ] the arts."

Abortion in the United States by Great Neck, Long Island, physician Mary Calderone (née Steichen), 53, reports on conferences of the Planned Parenthood Federation but is almost totally ignored (see 1955). A daughter of the late photographer Edward Steichen, Calderone became medical director of Planned Parenthood in 1953 (see Colorado, 1967).

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