Petition sponsored by several Stanford scientists and signed by more than 2,600 men and women scientists from the United States, Canada, Australia and Africa, denouncing the encyclical Humanae Vitae of Pope Paul VI prohibiting birth control. Also includes correspondence of Paul Ehrlich, 1969, clippings, 1968-69, and transcript of CBS radio show ?The Pope and the Pill? August 1968.

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