ABSTRACT
The Louisiana State Medical Society had endorsed both the concept of family planning and the private program during the growth years of the statewide drive. State officials insisted that they could run a family planning program at one-fourth, one-third, one-fifth of the costs at Family Health. Changing the rates for births, infant mortality, and illegitimacy was a major goal for the family planners. In April 1973, the federal grand jury requested by the medical society convened to investigate charges that the Family Health Foundation spent money in violation of the guidelines. Family Health had purchased thirty-seven mobile health clinics with federal money. Family Health had commissioned the clinics on the grounds that they were needed to operate and expand its statewide family planning program. Family Health had defined itself as a model for the solution of the "broader cyclic cluster of problems called the welfare-dependency cycle" by providing family planning services and related assistance to poor women.
