Word: pregnant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barefoot and Pregnant. The day's crowds ranged in size from as many as 20,000 marchers on New York's Fifth Avenue to four women hurling eggs at a Pittsburgh radio station whose disk jockey had dared protesters to flaunt their liberation. In nearly half a dozen cities, women swept past headwaiters to "liberate" all-male bars and restaurants. At the Detroit Free Press, women staffers, angered because male reporters had two washrooms while they had only one, stormed one of the men's rooms, ousted its inhabitants and occupied it for the rest...
...Manhattan leafleteers collared brokers at financial-district subway stops early in the morning; teams of women activists made the rounds of corporations whose advertising "degrades women" to present them with "Barefoot and Pregnant Awards." Also women are boycotting Cosmopolitan magazine because it emphasizes sex rather than the person. Editor Helen Gurley Brown, author of Sex and the Single Girl, nevertheless endorsed the women's liberation movement as "fantastic...
...claims that many hospitals have established arbitrary quotas for the number of abortions of different types (graded according to the length of pregnancy), and how many beds they will allot. Even worse, says Nathanson, is that some hospitals will not take women who are more than twelve weeks pregnant. "These," he adds, "are the women who are really getting desperate, who need it most." It is difficult to get nurses to aid in abortions beyond the twelfth week, because the nurses, and often the doctors, emotionally assume that a large fetus is more human than a small...
...first get parental permission, although the girl had left home. Hall is now seeking a court order to establish the rights of teenagers. A decision either way in the case, he says, will at least set a precedent. Insists Hall: "A girl who's old enough to get pregnant is old enough to have an abortion...
Most of the well-to-do women flocking to the private hospitals, where an abortion costs at least $500, have been out-of-towners. A disproportionate number of abortion seekers since July 1 have been, inevitably, those who were pregnant well before that date and are now crowding the legal deadline of 24 weeks of pregnancy. This situation will largely resolve itself by the passage of time and a growing awareness, especially among the poor, that they should seek help early. At the 15 municipal hospitals, which are now doing 120 abortions a day, there have been relatively few black...