FROM a day in 1958 when Dr. Louis Hellman,1 professor of obstetrics and gynecology at New York State's Downstate Medical College in Brooklyn, began the fight that led to the lifting of the ban on contraceptive services in municipal hospitals, New York City has moved to establish the most extensive network of clinical services in family planning of any community in the country. Active contraceptive services are now in being in each of the 14 municipal hospitals with obstetric services and at the Gouverneur Ambulatory Care Unit. All methods of fertility control are offered, so that the patient can choose . . .