As General Velasco tore down the family planning network APPF, the catholic church was continuing to provide family planning services to women around Peru. 

In 1974, a group of Catholic Bishops wrote the letter, Family and Population , in which they recognized that Peru’s growing overpopulation was caused by poverty, and that this problem needed be addressed in family-planning policy.  The letter directly contradicted the stance taken by General Velasco. 

At this point in Peru’s history, the Catholic Church was providing family planning services instead of the government.