Alan Frank Guttmacher | |
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President of Planned Parenthood | |
In office June 20, 1962 – April 13, 1968 | |
Preceded by | Margaret Sanger |
Personal details | |
Born | May 19, 1898 |
Died | March 18, 1974 | (aged 75)
Alan Frank Guttmacher (May 19, 1898 – March 18, 1974) was an American obstetrician/gynecologist. He served as president of Planned Parenthood and vice-president of the American Eugenics Society.[1] Guttmacher founded the American Association of Planned Parenthood Physicians, now known as the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, as a forum for physicians to discuss the birth control pill and other advances in the field. He founded the Association for the Study of Abortion in 1964. He was a member of the Association for Voluntary Sterilization. The Guttmacher Institute is named after him.
In 1973, Guttmacher was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto II.[2]