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Oct. 1966: Branford, Dwight Hall forums discuss contraceptive pills

Yale Yesterday

Class of 1968
Published Thursday, October 25, 2007

The Rev. David M. Byers told a group of students at the Branford Medical Forum last night that members of the Yale community exhibit a “sexual double standard that is really sick — really sick!”

Mr. Byers was one of three speakers who talked about various aspects of “Pregnancy, the Pill, and Morals.” The other speakers were Dr. Phillip Sorrell, resident in obstetrics at the Yale-New Haven Hospital and Dr. Nathan Kase, resident in gynecology, also at the Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Mr. Byers said, “The advent of the pill is for the most part, morally speaking, salutary” because...

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