Dear Editor: As an obstetrician/gynecologist, I would like to underline every point that Claire Coleman makes about contraception in her column, ?Don?t take birth control for granted.? As Coleman demonstrates, family planning services protect and improve our welfare, as individuals, as families, and as societies. Piles and piles of research support the importance of contraception, and every day, my colleagues and I see more evidence of its benefits in our patients? lives.