Letter to the Editor
1 Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642
We thank Dr Klaus for her interest in our paper and for her thoughts. We welcome the opportunity to address the issues which have been raised. It was clearly not possible to include all aspects of this very difficult and sensitive topic in such a review. The intent was to provide a basic fund of knowledge for the readers of Pediatrics. We chose to concentrate mostly on oral contraceptives, feeling this would be of greatest educational value for the pediatrician. Another article1 deals with barrier methods in more detail.




