To: Siobhan
"When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton in a letter to Julia Ward Howe, October 16, 1873. Recorded in Howe's diary at Harvard University Library.
To: nickcarraway
Says it in a nutshell. I will add that abortion is strongly supported by the guys who think of women as RENTAL property that they can abuse and then just walk away from.
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01/27/2003 5:55:27 AM PST by
RobbyS
To: nickcarraway
"When we consider that women are treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton in a letter to Julia Ward Howe, October 16, 1873. Recorded in Howe's diary at Harvard University Library.
When I worked in the Archives and Rare Books Division of a major medical library, the rare books librarian (certifiable lesbian-feminist nut) put together a rare books display of a lot of what we would call today pro-choice material dating back as far as the 16th century and into the early part of the 19th. Basically, demonstrating that it's always existed. There was a letter from a midwife to her daughter in a manuscript basically telling her daughter to save herself the trouble and forgo the burden of motherhood. There were method books of in-utero-infanticide - and she put them in the display cases. It was just awful.
Articles like this one give one a lot of hope that hearts and minds can be converted. It's very good to see.
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