ABSTRACT
The strategy of identifying high-risk women in their childbearing years and concentrating medical resources on them was an important case of primary-care epidemiology. The family planners assume that patients know enough to take responsibility for them and that older women who have reached their desired family size understand their choices for fertility management. The Family Health Foundation had planned to take a public stand favoring legalized abortion because of its disapproval of illegal abortion. Although the original inspiration for the development of family planning services had come from the federal government, the responsibility was shifting to the states by the mid-1970s. The original family planning movement was directed at women who wished to limit or space their children and needed the corollary medical services. State-run family planning program has few ties to prenatal services and the state Maternal-Child Health Program.
