Title | Broadside, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 1979 |
Publisher | National Organization for Women, Houston Chapter |
Date | January 1979 |
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Original Item Location | HQ1439 .H68 B75 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b3767173~S11 |
Digital Collection | Houston and Texas Feminist and Lesbian Newsletters |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/feminist |
Repository | Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/special-collections |
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Transcript | THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE Six years ago this month, the Supreme Court of the United States decreed that the right of a woman to bear a child or to terminate an unwanted pregnancy was a matter for that woman to decide for herself. For the first time, the element of choice, not chance or legal edict, would control the childbearing or non- childbearing of American women. The scenes we had witnessed and the stories we had heard of butchered women and botched self-abortions would no longer be seen or heard in the land. Women could now decide for themselves whether they would be mothers, doctors, teachers, mechanics, students, or any combination of any of these and an unlimited number of other life choices. The self-determination of American women would no longer be frustrated by laws that made it legally, |