before the 1970's, we had no pills, no serious birth-control...sisters who were pregnant and couldn't keep the child had to go abroad , Switzerland, Belgium, England, to get abortion...then laws came, Newirth law for bith-conrtrol, Veil for abortion...some said, we were murderers, some said that was too easy...I never got abortion for myself, I was lucky enough to get pregnant when I wanted too...but I remember helping others, going to hospital with them, going from flat to flats in town to explain birth-control...I wish they had been with us, all those who said it was easy...a woman has the right to chose, she owns her womb, nobody else does, just herself...
we were so happy when the law came...we thought: at least our daughters will be free...
but HIV came...and we lost our dream...
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WOW!
I'm with you on this one.
I'm so lucky to live in a time of choice.
But also aware that it isn't the same the world over for us yet. Will it ever be? I fear not, wherever men have th eupper hand, they know that pregnancy is the way to keep it.
Hence, halt the woman's choice about it as much as possible.
It's one of those issues that makes my blood boil.
As I grow older, I find myself growing calmer. Some of the things that used to make me mad no longer get me so badly.
But not this. I will always say, this is a woman's issue, a woman's choice.
Thank you for working so hard when it was so much harder for us all.
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