[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.

[RobbyS]

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.

[Desdemona]

"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.