85 years ago today - Aug 10, 1933

[J. Reuben Clark]
[In speaking with a woman who sought the support of the First Presidency to convince Senator King to support a program of birth control information for women not physically capable of bringing healthy children to birth:] I told her that so far as I knew the Church had never officially taken a position upon the question of birth control though all of our teachings were against it. ...

[Source: The Diaries of J. Reuben Clark, 1933-1961, Abridged, Digital Edition, Salt Lake City, Utah 2015]

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