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I do not share their pessimism with regard to staffing since I feel that a multidisciplinary approach to sexual matters will appeal to a new generation of doctors, particularly if abortion services were part and parcel of a unified family planning service with the problems of contraception, sterilization, and sexual difficulties well represented. The problems are complex but since there is public demand, it is our duty to give carefully thought-out advice. If a new specialty is needed should the medical profession demur; has there ever been a time that a new challenge has been ignored successfully?-I am, etc.,