From: Barbara Lamar (shabrika@juno.com)
Date: Sun Sep 10 2000 - 12:21:23 MDT
>
> If women did not have a reasonable option of choice due to legal or
> medical
> problems, as would have been the case 50 years ago in this country,
> then you
> could make a different argument, certainly.
There was a film made a few years ago directed by Cher. It consisted of
3 short segments representing different time periods. I found the first
segment, early 1950's to be quite powerful. Demi Moore played a nurse
whose husband had been killed in WWII and who had subsequently become
pregnant as a result of a grief-induced one-nighter with her late
husband's younger brother.
I came of age during this period when a woman had to risk her life in
order to go ON with her life. We were lucky here in Texas, because we
could go across the border into Mexico and get abortions at
well-maintained clinics staffed by MD's and trained nurses. But even
that took SOME money; and the non-rich women who didn't live close to a
border were SOL.
Nothing chills me more than the thought of returning to those conditions.
I can think of few laws that could be more damaging to women. (The
beginning of _If These Walls Could Talk_ is a collage of images from the
various time periods and includes Gloria Steinham's (spelling?) classic
line: "If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.")
Barbara
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