ABSTRACT
The Planned Parenthood Center of Syracuse, like its sister agencies throughout the country, tended to stand apart from the rest of the regulative system. The agency was under the direction of a full-time social worker and a part-time. Clinics were staffed by physicians practicing gynecology and obstetrics and members of the Medical Center faculty and staff. The agency profile highlights vividly the isolation of the Planned Parenthood Center from the remainder of the regulative system. Although the agency made no systematic exploration of complicating problems among its clients, financial setbacks were automatically recorded and some other complaints made spontaneously at intake were considered serious enough to record. The benchmarks of the Planned Parenthood Center were its recruiting spirit, the specificity of its service, and the relative isolation in which it practiced. Of course, such a specialized, medical service offered to healthy women in an outpatient setting should not often require collaboration with other parts of the regulative system.
