Word: womens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS possesses grains of truth beneath some predictable chaff. The evening's four tales of men and women prove again that while there may sometimes be poetry and rhyme in love and marriage, there is rarely reason...
...Chisholm will be the first Negro woman ever to become a member of the House of Representatives. She defeated another Negro?CORE Founder James Farmer?in a contest in which sex, of all things, was the big issue. Farmer aides conducted an underground campaign based on the premise that "women have been in the driver's seat" in black communities for too long. Negroes did not significantly increase their House holdings, but another who will be watched when he arrives in Washington is Cleveland Democrat Louis A. Stokes, 43, brother of that city's mayor...
Optional Accessories. Largely because of the patent, wholesale flouting of old punitive laws and the fact that these statutes were endangering the lives of many women, the American Law Institute became concerned in the late 1950s. After careful study, the institute drafted a model abortion law. On April 25, 1967, Colorado became the first state to enact a modern abortion law, on the basic pattern of the A.L.I, model with a few minor optional accessories...
Typical of the married women who sought (and were granted) an abortion on psychiatric grounds was the 36-year-old wife of a factory foreman, who already had three children. To the hospital board, which included a psychiatrist, she explained: "My last pregnancy was a mistake. My husband and I knew that having another child would strain me to the limit?or beyond. I've already had to have some psychiatric help, partly because our eldest boy is a problem, and I just can't face any more burdens. Another child would shove me over the brink?...
Among unmarried women, a common psychiatric claim was that of girls who concluded that they had simply made a mistake. Said one: "I realized that I couldn't think of marrying him and spending the rest of my life with him, and I refuse to have a temporary marriage just to be able to give birth to a legitimate child. So I'm trapped. There's nowhere to turn. If I can't get an abortion legally and decently, I'll go out of my mind." The glib lay phrase "go out of my mind" by itself would not have...