17-04-2022, 12:14 PM
How uncanny - this morning i was listening to a podcast thing - Michael Moore talking to a USA lawyer (Dr Michele Bratcher-Goodwin, who's had her own problems in the form of abusive family) about the changes to reproductive laws in some of the states, then I come in & the posts are on adoption/abortion & women's reproductive health. Coincidence, perhaps.
Its called Policing the womb for anyone interested.
https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/policing-...jukXvi0xIM
Most of our generation will have known women who had unwanted pregnancies & the various ways of dealing with that. Mostly young women were sent 'up north for a while' to a home for unwed mothers as they were called then to stay until their baby was born, with pressure being applied to give up the child for adoption. Some married the father instead - they were called 'shotgun weddings', but some men 'shot through' often to Australia to avoid the issue & leaving the young woman to deal with the consequences.
Then there were those brave young women who somehow kept their child, often with family support & some attempted to get maintenance from the father, which meant going to court.
I've heard of cases where the father would round up his mates to claim they'd also had sex with the woman in order to avoid having to pay.
Those women who have babies up were often scarred to some extent by it & many have in later years managed to make contact with their child.
The world was cruel to those women who became pregnant outside marriage back then; let us hope that those times never come again.
Its called Policing the womb for anyone interested.
https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/policing-...jukXvi0xIM
Most of our generation will have known women who had unwanted pregnancies & the various ways of dealing with that. Mostly young women were sent 'up north for a while' to a home for unwed mothers as they were called then to stay until their baby was born, with pressure being applied to give up the child for adoption. Some married the father instead - they were called 'shotgun weddings', but some men 'shot through' often to Australia to avoid the issue & leaving the young woman to deal with the consequences.
Then there were those brave young women who somehow kept their child, often with family support & some attempted to get maintenance from the father, which meant going to court.
I've heard of cases where the father would round up his mates to claim they'd also had sex with the woman in order to avoid having to pay.
Those women who have babies up were often scarred to some extent by it & many have in later years managed to make contact with their child.
The world was cruel to those women who became pregnant outside marriage back then; let us hope that those times never come again.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)