Argus title : The issue is control of women
My Grandmother was very proper. Like my mother, she never used even the mildest bad language. She never told or even laughed at a smutty joke. I don’t remember hearing her ever use the word “sex”.
Yet, when I was a child growing up in the 1950s, she and my mother somehow communicated to me the absolute certainty that no woman should have childbirth forced upon her. Men should “use something” to prevent it. And, if they didn’t, women had a right to end the pregnancy. Continue reading