PPFA Abortion Conference, 1955
Participants of Conference

"The sooner the public is acquainted with the basis facts and implications of abortion in the United States, the better. Only through widespread knowledge of the situation can responsible public action be taken to correct the conditions that underlie the high incidence of illegal abortions in this country."
Frederick H. Falls, MD
Past President, Am. Assoc. for Maternal and Infant Health
Past President, AMA Section of Ob/Gyn

Helen W. Bellhouse, MD
Director, Division of Maternal and Child Health, Department of Public Health, Atlanta, GA

Bard Brekke, MD
Psychiatrist, Maternal Health Center, Oslo, Norway

Carl Clemmesen, MD
Chief Surgeon, Bispebjerg Hospital, Consultant in Psychiatry, National Health Service, Copenhagen, Denmark

Joseph P. Donnelly, MD
Medical Director, Margaret Hague Maternity Hospital, Jersy City, NJ

R. Gordon Douglas, MD
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cornell University Medical College

Earl T. Engle, PhD
Professor of Anatomy, Obstetrical and Gynecological Service, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York City

Carl Erhardt
Director, Bureau of Records and Statistics, Department of Health, New York City

Frederick H. Falls, MD
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Illinios College of Medicine, Chicago, IL

Iago Galdston, MD
Executive Secretary, Medical Information Bureau, New York Academy of Medicine, New York City

D. V. Galloway, MD, MPH
Director, Division of Maternal and Child Health, State Board of Health, Jackson, MS

Gunnar af Geijerstam, MD
Department of Women's Diseases, Karolinska Sjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden

Alan F. Guttmacher, MD
Director, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York City

Louis B. Hellman, MD
Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, State University of New York, Brooklyn

Milton Helpern, MD
Chief Medical Examiner, New York City

Harold Jacobziner, MD
Assistant Commissioner, Maternal and Child Health Services, Department of Health, New York City; Associate Professor in Clinical Pediatrics, University Medical School, Bellevue Medical Center, New York City

Alfred C. Kinsey, SCD
Director, Institute for Sex Research, Inc., Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Sophia J. Kleegman, MD
Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, New York University College of Medicine, New York City

Lawrence C. Kolb, MD
Director, New York State Psychiatric Institute; Professor and Executive Officer, Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City

Robert W. Laidlaw, MD
Chief, Division of Psychiatry, Roosevelt Hospital, New York City; Past President, American Association of Marriage Counselors

Theodore Lidz, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Charles M. McLane, MD
Chairman, Medical Committe, PPFA; Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cornell University Medical College, New York City

Robert B. Nelson, MD
Chairman, Sub-Committee on Maternal Welfare, Medical Socity of the District of Columbia; Medical Director, Planned Parenthood Association of the District of Columbia

Warren O. Nelson, MD
Medical Director, The Population Council, Inc., New York City

Richard N. Pierson, MD
Consultant, Stamford, CT., Huntington and North Country Community Hospitals, Long Island, NY

Wesley T. Pommerenke, MD
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, Rochester, NY

John Rock, MD
Director, Fertility & Endocrine Clinic, Free Hospital for Women, Brookline, MA

Harold Rosen, PhD, MD
Psychiatrist, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD; Editor, Therapeutic Abortion, Julian Press Inc., 1954

Edwin M. Schur
Senior Student, Yale University School of Law, New Haven, CT

Clarence Senior, PhD
Chief of Migration Division, Department of Labor, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, New York City

Mack I. Shanholtz, MD, MPH
State Health Commissioner, Richmond, VA

Hilla Sheriff, MD, MPH
Director, Division of Maternal and Child Health, State Board of Health, Columbia, SC

Abraham Stone, MD
Director, Margaret Sanger Research Bureau; Vice-President, PPFA, New York City

Irene B. Taeuber, PhD
Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Howard C. Taylor, Jr. MD
Director, Obstetrical and Gynecological Service, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York City

Christopher Tietze, MD
Director of Research, National Committee for Maternal Health, New York City

G. Lotrell Timanus, MD
Rehoboth Beach, DE

P. K. Whelpton
Director, Scripps Foundation for Research on Population Problems, Miami University, Oxford, OH

Dorothy Wiehl
Technical Staff, Milbank Memorial Fund, New York City

From Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Robert M. Ferguson
President, PPFA

William Vogt, ScD
National Director, PPFA

Mary Stichen Calderone, MD, MSPH
Medical Director, PPFA

Winfield Best
Director of Public Relations, PPFA

Frederick Jaffe
Assistant Director of Public Relations, PPFA

Lester Walsh
Stenotypist for Conference

Note: Positions and titles are as of the date of the conference in 1955
Participants designated in green chose to sign the Conference Statement.
Participants designated in red chose to withhold signatures from the Conference Statement.
Participants designated in black either abstained or were not asked to sign.